By: Frederick R. Hill

Frederick R. Hill — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 11:31:54 +0000

Not enough Jewish composers -bobbameises! Since the Enlightenment around 1800, Jews have contributed to the composition of music in ever greater numbers generation by generation.In roughly chronological order – and these are only the ones whose music I have actually heard – excluding the ones you have listed: Salomone de’ Rossi, Meyerbeer,Felix Mendelssohn and his sister Fanny, Moscheles, Halevy, Goldmark, Joachim, Wienawski,Gottschalk,Dukas,Isaac Nathan (Australia’s first)Schoenberg, Bloch,Milhaud,Finzi,Copland,Weill,Bernstein (Leonard and Elmer) Vynberg,Castelnuovo- Tedesco,Schulhoff, Gideon Klein,Haas, Krasa, Ullmann (the last 5 all perished in the Holocaust)Korngold, Goehr (father and son)Wilfred Josephs,George Dreyfus, Lalo Schifrin,Arthur and George Benjamin (unrelated)Diamond, Foss, Samuel Adler, Mark Isaacs … not counting the stellar Broadway and Hollywood composers and the jazz musicians.And I may as well count myself!

By: Victor grynberg

Victor grynberg — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 09:36:14 +0000

We were fortunate enough to be at the premiere of both Elena Kats-Chernin’s Concerto for 8 Double Basses and last months MSO performance of Big Rhap. Both were outstanding and the audiences were very enthusiastic in their response . The imaginative use of the double basses surely will make this a piece that top orchestras around the world will want to play. Big Rhap was a 10 minute melodic extravaganza and really had the audience in rapture. Recently we bought Elena’s 2 recebrbCDs Butterfly ING and Unsent Love Letters. Both outstanding and played often on Classic FM and Fine Music. So our Jewish Community should be very proud that this composing jewel is one of ours. We look forward to Elena’s next pieces.

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By: Frederick R. Hill

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