The Weimar-Jerusalem Project is a unique German-Israeli collaboration. The orchestra, a joint undertaking of the Weimar and Jerusalem Academies, half of the players being Israeli and half of them German, is setting out on a concert tour that will begin in Germany and end in Israel. The program is a story in sound, dedicated to the history of Jewish composers in central Europe from the end of the 18th century up to the Holocaust, the event that would sever the continuity of their involvement and contribution.
Next Concerts:
01.10. | 1 October at 20:00
Tel Aviv, Museum
02.10. | 2 October at 20:30
Haifa, Rapaport Hall
03.10. | 3 October at 20:00
Jerusalem, Henry Crown Symphony Hall
Conductor: Michael Sanderling
Soloists: Yuval Herz, violin, Guy Pelc, baritone
Program:
Berthold Goldschmidt (1903 – 1996)
Passacaglia op. 4
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 – 1847)
Violin concerto in E minor op. 64
Allegro molto appassionato | Andante |
Allegretto non troppo – Allegro molto vivace
Gustav Mahler (1860 – 1911)
Lieder aus | from Des Knaben Wunderhorn“
Trost im Unglück | Rheinlegendchen |
Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt | Revelge
Dmitri Schostakowitsch (1906 – 1975)
Symphony No. 6 in B minor op. 54 | Largo | Allegro | Presto
Tickets : Regular - 70 NIS, Student - 30NIS
Special price for Janglo users: 45 NIS.
When ordering tickets, please mention the coupon code: 1232
Box office: 02-5605755 (Jerusalem concert)
04-8338888 (Haifa concert)
*9066, or eventim (Tel Aviv concert)
For Further Details: 054-9293405, tickets@jamd.ac.il
Concert tour schedule of the Young Symphonic Orchestra, the joint project of the Weimar High School of Music and the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance:
Saturday July 27th – Opening concert of the Weimar Art and Theatre Festival
Sunday July 28th – Performance at the Courinne Classical Music Festival, Courinne
Tuesday July 30th - Concert at the Summer Festival for Youth Orchestras, Spielhaus, Berlin
Wednesday July 31st – Symposium and Concert, Municipal Concert Hall, Bayreuth
Friday August 2nd – Concert, Frauenkirche, Dresden
In the course of its tour in Germany, the orchestra will appear in Bayreuth, Richard Wagner’s hometown, with the young musicians taking part in an exceptional event which will begin with a symposium on the question of Wagner and the Jews, with the intention of raising the subject for discussion in Germany, its sensitive aspects and complexities in connection with Wagner’s personality and anti-Semitic writings. The Weimar-Jerusalem Orchestra’s concert performance and participation in the Bayreuth Festival are a momentous event and of great significance in the history of relations between Israel and Germany. As of the beginning of the 19th century, the impressive annual Festival of New Music taking place in Weimar had become an important and noteworthy European festival. One artistic director was the renowned pianist and composer Franz Liszt. Composers Richard Strauss, Arnold Schönberg, Kurt Weill and many others were present at the festival with their finest works. Bruno Walter, Wilhelm Furtwängler and Otto Klemperer were among the celebrated conductors appearing at the festival.
The festival’s activities were cut short when the Nazis rose to power. The festival managers’ refusal to give in to the demands of Nazi censorship led to a deep rift between festival administration and the authorities and to the prohibition of the festival. In the forest next to Weimar, the Nazi authorities built the Buchenwald Concentration Camp, where many German Jews perished. After the war, the camp continued to function under the Communist authorities, who turned it into a prison camp, where the Franz Liszt Music High School was converted into living quarters for Russian soldiers. The camp was closed in the early 1950s and became a memorial site. After the Berlin Wall came down, the building was returned to the Music High School. One of the first moves taken by the school’s academic faculty members was to open the historical Weimar Festival archives to the general public. Following lengthy and thorough restoration, the archives were made available to researchers from all over the world. In the archives, there are several manuscripts of such great composers of Jewish descent as Giacomo Meyerbeer, Henri Herz, Ignaz Moscheles, Felix Mendelssohn, Eduard Lassen, and many more.
In the light of these tragic circumstances, the idea of linking the city of Weimar with Jerusalem was born, with the objective of creating a permanent cultural, musical forum of dialogue between the two peoples through the establishment of a joint orchestra whose players would come from both music academies. Their combined activity and works performed will, in both Germany and Israel, constitute living and continuous substantiation of Jewish composers who perished in the Holocaust or who survived at a heavy price.