A Concert Series Honoring the Music of Jewish Composers Who Were Silenced
Dear Friends of Classical Music, The Phoenix Symphony in association with The OREL Foundation, the Center for Jewish Studies at Arizona State University, and with resources from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., is proud to present The Rediscovered Masters Series. Through concerts, lectures, and films, the music of composers who were killed by the Nazis, were forced to leave Nazi-occupied Europe, or whose music was suppressed by the Nazi regime will be performed, studied, and celebrated. The Rediscovered Masters Series will include works by Pavel Haas, Hans Krása, Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Erwin Schulhoff, Marcel Tyberg, and Kurt Weill, as reminders of the resilience and timelessness of music and its ability to resist oppression and censorship. In addition, the Series will shed light on two of the world’s most influential 19 century composers—Felix Mendelssohn and Richard Wagner. Mendelssohn th
was born a Jew but was converted to Protestantism by his parents. Yet his music was suppressed by the Nazis on account of his Jewishness. By contrast, Richard Wagner, whose music was adored by the Nazis, denied the ability of Jews to compose music of any depth or beauty, but had close working relations with Jewish musicians and even admired some of them. Through the performance of Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll and lectures about the involvement of Jews in the musical world of the 19th century, The Phoenix Symphony will shed a new light on the relationship between Wagner and
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Mendelssohn, and alert us all to the destructive role that anti-Semitism has played in western culture. This innovative educational project illustrates the power of music to function as a social and cultural force, shaping attitudes and preferences. Committed to revive and uphold the legacy of composers whose works were suppressed, The Phoenix Symphony and its associated institutions will ensure that hatred will never prevail and war will never triumph. We invite you now to embrace and rediscover the inspirational music of those who were silenced by attending Phoenix Symphony concerts and lectures at Symphony Hall as well as special lectures at Congregation Beth Israel. Alternatively you can visit www.phoenixsymphony.org to learn about event details and purchase tickets to the event and make contributions to this inspirational community project. We look forward to seeing you in the season ahead for some inspirational music-making and informative lectures.
The Rediscovered Masters Lecture Series is sponsored by Sheila Schwartz and in part by a grant from the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix.
Sincerely,
Michael Christie
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Maryellen H. Gleason
Virginia G. Piper Music Director, The Phoenix Symphony
Director, Center for Jewish Studies at Arizona State University
President & CEO, The Phoenix Symphony
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Brundibar Hans Krása was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia on November 30, 1899. At an early age, he began composing music and learned to play both piano and violin while studying with Alexander Zemlinsky. Krása debuted his most well known piece, the children’s opera Brundibár in 1942. Deported to the Terezin work camp, he was appointed the director of “leisure time”. While in the camp, Krása was able to reconstruct his music from Brundibár, gathering a full cast of child performers and musicians who would perform over 55 shows in Terezin. Within a week of the last performance of Brundibár, Krása and nearly all of the musicians and
CALENDAR OF CONCERTS, LECTURES, and FILMS
Composed in 1938 and originally performed by the children of Theresienstadt concentration camp in the former Czechoslovakia, Hans Krása’s Brundibár is the first piece of the Rediscovered Masters Series. Featuring the Phoenix Boys Choir, the semi-staged opera contains obvious symbolism in the triumph of the helpless and needy children over the tyrannical organ grinder. Brundibár will be presented with Maurice Sendak’s illustrations from his recently published children’s book.
OCT 6
WED 7:30 pm, Congregation Beth Israel
OCT 7
THU 6:30 pm, Symphony Hall
LECTURE From Mendelssohn to the Holocaust
performed as part of RM Concert 1
Speaker: Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Irving & Miriam Lowe Professor of Modern Judaism and Director, Center for Jewish Studies, Arizona State University
performers were deported to Auschwitz and killed.
All lectures at Congregation Beth Israel are at no charge. Please note: Lectures at Symphony Hall are included with your ticket to concert.
Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes
————————————————————————————————————————— Mieczyslaw Weinberg was born in Warsaw, Poland on December 8, 1919. Ten years prior to his birth, his family had left the Moldavian town of Kishinyov after anti-Semitic violence killed several members of his family. Introduced to music early in his life, Weinberg’s father was a violinist and conductor in a Yiddish theater. He was greatly influenced by his father’s love of Jewish music as well as the terror that his family had endured. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Weinberg did not move west to escape the Nazi power, instead, he moved to the Soviet Union in 1939. At the time of his move, Jews were enjoying a welcoming and peaceful period in the Soviet Union. But in 1948 Stalin renewed anti-Semitic efforts and in 1953, Weinberg was arrested and accused of trying to establish a Jewish republic in the Crimea. After being tortured by Soviet police, he was released and spent much of his remaining life dedicated to Holocaust remembrance.
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N o r th A me r i can P r em i e r e ! The Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes is an orchestral showpiece with colorful orchestration and blazingly fast string playing. It has been suggested that the title of this work was meant to deceive the anti-Semite Soviet authorities, as the themes of the work actually are derived from Jewish culture. One of his 22 symphonies, this fascinating work shows Weinberg’s unique sense of drama, as his melodies gradually build into an intense frenzy and incorporate Polish and Russian dance with melodies gradually building.
RM Concert 1 performed as part of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet concert.
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OCT 7
THU 7:30 pm
OCT 8
FRI 11:00 am*
OCT 9
KRÁSA
Brundibár WEINBERG
Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes PROKOFIEV
Romeo and Juliet (selections)
SAT 8:00 pm Thursday’s concert is sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. William S. Levine In Honor of The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Night at the Symphony
performed as part of RM Concert 1
NOV 7 SUN 1:00 pm
FILM SCREENING The Pianist Phoenix Art Museum Free and open to the public. *The Friday coffee concert is one hour of music selected from the evening’s program.
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NOV 10
WED 7:30 pm, Congregation Beth Israel
NOV 11
Completion of Schubert’s Symphony No. 8
THU 6:30 pm, Symphony Hall
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likely, his musical training came from his parents, both
As an expatriate living in Italy, Austrian composer Marcel Tyberg is one of many composers who sought to complete Shubert’s lyrical Unfinished Symphony with detailed sketches from the composer. Giving his score to a friend just prior to his deportation to Auschwitz, his music was stored in a suitcase in a basement in Buffalo, New York for several decades. Tyberg’s score was obtained by The Phoenix Symphony in the spring of 2010 and these performances mark the first time this piece will be heard by audiences.
were accomplished classical artists, and it is known that he studied at the Vienna Academy of Music. His family moved from Austria to Abbazia, Italy when Tyberg was still young and it is said that he had a very liberal, anti-war focused upbringing. During a Nazi-mandated census of Italy in 1943, Marcel Tyberg’s mother indicated that she and her family were racially Jewish because of one of her great grandfathers. Tyberg himself had been raised as a Catholic, but his mother was not concerned about the census as their family had never practiced Judaism. The Tybergs, being well known musicians, thought they were included in Nazi laws that allowed for “Honorary Aryans” in Croatia. Only 11 days after Tyberg finished his Third Symphony, new laws were put into effect and Tyberg was deported to San
performed as part of RM Concert 2
Sabba and eventually killed at Auschwitz.
LECTURE The Jews of Central Europe: Assimilation or Jewish Identity Speaker: Marsha Rozenblit, Harvey M. Meyerhoff, Professor of Jewish History, University of Maryland
RM Concert 2 performed as part of Schubert’s “Unfinished Symphony” Finished concert.
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NOV 11
THU 7:30 pm
NOV 12
FRI 11:00 am*
NOV 13
SAT 8:00 pm
Corigliano Suite for Antiphonal Chorus Schubert Symphony No. 8 (“Unfinished”) Tyberg Completion of Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 Bruckner Mass in E. minor
Thursday’s concert is sponsored by Ellen & Howard C. Katz Saturday’s concert is partially sponsored by Ken & Carol Kasses
NOV 22
MON 7:30 pm, Congregation Beth Israel
NOV 26
Schulhoff Symphony No. 2
FRI 6:30 pm, Symphony Hall
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a classical composer, Schulhoff worked extensively
Schuhoff’s sober Symphony No. 2 was written for Czech radio in 1932 during his prolific years as a composer. A brilliant improviser, his six symphonies are varied and original, reflecting the musical diversity of the Hapsburg Empire and Schulhoff’s fascination with American Jazz.
with radio broadcasting classical music.
performed as part of RM Concert 3
Erwin Schulhoff’s most well known music was surprisingly not influenced by his famous musical family. However, it was greatly impacted by his time serving in World War I for the Austrian army. Part of his unusual musical influence impacted his theories about how music should be heard and, unique for
Schulhoff was an outspoken Marxist and supporter of the Soviet Union. His application for citizenship for the Soviet Union was approved, but before he emigrated, Schulhoff was
LECTURE The Young Felix Mendelssohn: The Making of a Musical Genius Speaker: R. Larry Todd, Arts and Sciences Professor of Music, Duke University
RM Concert 3 performed as part of Dvorˇák’s New World Symphony concert.
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NOV 26
FRI 8:00 pm
NOV 27
SAT 8:00 pm
arrested by the Nazis and deported to the Wülzberg concentration camp where he died of tuberculosis in August of 1942. His father, Gustav Schulhoff died the same year in the
Friday’s concert is sponsored by Saturday’s concert is sponsored by Gerald & Marilyn Roye
Terezin concentration camp, where many
*The Friday coffee concert is one hour of music selected from the evening’s program.
prominent Jewish musicians were sent.
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SCHULHOFF Symphony No. 2 MENDELSSOHN Song Without Words Op. 19 MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto No. 1 ˇ ÁK DVOR Symphony No. 9 (“New World Symphony”)
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Song Without Words Op 19 & Piano Concerto No. 1
———————————————————————————————————— As a child, Felix Mendelssohn was regarded as one of the most talented prodigies since Mozart. He was born into a very prominent Jewish family on February 3, 1809 and was the grandson of the famed Jewish philosopher, Moses Mendelssohn. Interestingly, Mendelssohn himself was raised without a religion and later was baptized Lutheran. However, throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, his music was suppressed as a result of anti-Semitism throughout Europe. As his music has continued to be discovered, Mendelssohn has grown in popularity and is now one of the most highly regarded Romantic-era composers.
During the Romantic era in Europe, the piano was a tremendously popular instrument, spurring numerous compositions of short lyrical pieces to satisfy public demand. Mendelssohn composed eight volumes of such pieces, which gained notoriety through his family’s famous parlor concerts. The Phoenix Symphony welcomes renowned pianist Benedetto Lupo as he returns to Phoenix to perform Mendelssohn’s Song Without Words Op. 19 and the delightful Piano Concerto No. 1. performed as part of RM Concert 3
Elijah
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Symphony No. 5
——————————— Born within four years of each other, Felix Mendelssohn and Richard Wagner, both musical geniuses, were almost polar opposites. Mendelssohn was rich, a virtuoso performer, and a modest personality while Wagner struggled his whole life with debt, was an opinionated anti-Semite and a radical. And while both were German, Wagner’s irascibility and his belief in the destiny of German art were to provoke a
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cultural clash opening a fault line that ran through European history of the next century. The Phoenix Symphony focuses on these two giants, their volatile relationship and the implications of their ideological differences as it performs Mendelssohn’s glorious Symphony No.5 and Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll.
WED 7:30 pm, Congregation Beth Israel
FEB 3
THU 6:30 pm, Symphony Hall
LECTURE Judaism and Christianity: Shared Heritage, Diverse Interpretations Speaker: David Schildkret, Professor of Choral Music, Arizona State University; Music Director, Scottsdale United Methodist Church
performed as part of RM Concert 5
Scottish Symphony (Symphony No. 3)
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In a stunning night of orchestral power, Arizona Opera’s Artistic Director Joel Revzen makes his conducting debut with The Phoenix Symphony for Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony, (Symphony No. 3). Composed after travelling to the British Isles, Mendelssohn’s masterpiece evokes a raw, emotional power—from its joyous movements hearkening to Scottish folk and dance music, to the Germanic sounds of its majestic finale.
RM Concert 4 performed as part of Elijah concert.
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FEB 3
THU 7:30 pm
FEB 5
SAT 8:00 pm
FEB 12-28 various times
FILM SCREENING Against The Tide
performed as part of RM Concert 7
Harkins Camelview Harkins Chandler Crossroads
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Composed at various times in his life, Mendelssohn’s charming and magical piece instantly conjures the enchanted woods and fairies from Shakespeare’s brilliant play. The Phoenix Symphony will dazzle audiences with this beautiful piece—from its magical opening chords to the shimmering finale—including characterizations by Spencer Dooley of Phoenix Theatre, as well as Andrea Pitman and Holly Sheppard in their Phoenix Symphony debuts as the woodland fairies.
MENDELSSOHN Elijah
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FEB 16
WED 7:30 pm ASU Gammage Auditorium
Composers in the Concentration Camp Musicians from the Arizona State University School of Music will join local singers for this concert led by the renowned conductor Maestro Israel Yinon. Maestro Yinon has dedicated his career to recording and performing the works of Jewish composers.
performed as part of RM Concert 8
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MAR 2
WED 7:30 pm, Congregation Beth Israel
MAR 3
Suite From The Threepenny Opera
——————————————————————— Kurt Weill was born into a very religious Jewish family in Dessau, Germany on March 2, 1900. The son of a cantor, Weill drew musical inspiration from virtually every aspect of his life, making it nearly impossible to classify his music into one genre. As a prominent and popular Jewish composer, he was a target of the Nazi authorities, who criticized and interfered with performances of his stage works and caused him to flee Nazi Germany. Weill emigrated to the United States in 1935 and believing that most of his work had been destroyed, he seldom spoke or wrote German again. Weill and his partner Bertolt Brecht’s great success came in the form of Die Dreigroschenoper or The Threepenny Opera, which premiered on Broadway and would forever link Weill with hugely
THU 6:30 pm, Symphony Hall
————————————— Kurt Weill’s milestone, The Threepenny Opera is best known for its opening number “Mack the Knife” and the ballad of “Pirate Jenny”. His influence on music can still be seen today in classical and popular contexts, with artists from Louis Armstrong to Michael Bublé still performing the classic song. The Phoenix Symphony performs his groundbreaking Suite from The Threepenny Opera, showcasing Weill’s genius of melding experimental European styles with his discovery of American jazz. performed as part of RM Concert 6
LECTURE ‘An Hebraic Taste’ Wagner, Jews and the business of Music Speaker: David Conway, Senior Research Fellow, University College, London
RM Concert 5 performed as part of Frautschi Performs Bruch concert.
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MAR 3
THU 7:30 pm
MAR 4
FRI 11:00 am*
MAR 5
SAT 8:00 pm
influencing American Jazz. He continued his musical career
Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 Mendelssohn Symphony No. 5 (“Reformation”) Wagner Siegfried Idyll REDISCOVERED MASTERS Selection TBD
Thursday & Friday’s concerts are sponsored by Allan & Lois Mayer
in the United States until 1950 when he suffered a fatal heart attack only a month after his 50th birthday.
MAR 23
WED 7:30 pm, Congregation Beth Israel
LECTURE Theresienstadt: Hitler’s Unwitting Gift
A Study for Strings
————————————————————————————————————————— Pavel Haas was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia into a prominent and wealthy family who emphasized the importance of music in his life. In 1941, when Nazi power was coming into Brno, Haas knew that he was going to be a target. In order to protect his family, he divorced his wife so she could take their son and excape Nazi laws. Soon after their divorce, Haas was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to the Terezin concentration camp. Despondent, his spirit was broken but he was urged by a fellow composer to continue on. The young man placed blank sheet music before Haas and beseeched him to practice his craft while in the prison. Haas continued to compose music including the challenging A Study for Strings and the beautiful Four Songs on Chinese Poetry until he perished in the gas chambers of Auschwitz.
Pavel Haas composed his Study for Strings while imprisoned in the Terezin concentration camp. In September of 1944 a performance of Haas’ piece was filmed by the Nazi’s for propaganda, which deviously portrayed Terezin as an idyllic Jewish town. In a matter of days after the performance Haas and most of the orchestra, as well as thousands of other prisoners were shipped to Auschwitz, where they perished in the gas chambers. The Phoenix Symphony performs Haas’ A Study for Strings to showcase his compositional mastery and skill in evoking the most poignant emotions.
Speaker: Robert J. Elias, Executive Director of the OREL Foundation
RM Concert 6 performed as part of Threepenny Opera Suite concert.
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MAR 24 THU 7:30 pm
MAR 25
FRI 11:00 am*
MAR 26
Weill Suite from Threepenny Opera Haas A Study for Strings Mozart Serenade for Strings (“Haffner”)
SAT 8:00 pm
Friday’s concert is sponsored by June Pinsof Saturday’s concert is sponsored by Barry & Barbara Zemel
performed as part of RM Concert 6 *The Friday coffee concert is one hour of music selected from the evening’s program.
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About The Films
APR 20
WED 7:30 pm, Congregation Beth Israel
LECTURE Music, Assimilation and Ambivalence Speaker: Joel Revzen, Artistic Director, Arizona Opera
RM Concert 7 performed as part of Mendelssohn’s Scottish Journey concert.
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The Pianist Against The Tide The Red Violin —————————————————————————————————
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NOV 7, 1:00 pm Phoenix Art Museum 1625 North Central Ave
Greater Phoenix Jewish Film Festival FEB 12–28, various times
Nominated for 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and winner of 3, The Pianist, stars Oscar winner Adrien Brody in the true-life story of brilliant pianist and composer Wladyslaw Szpilman, the most acclaimed young musician of his time until his promising career was interrupted by the onset of World War II. This powerful, triumphant film follows Szpilman’s heroic and inspirational journey of survival with the unlikely help of a sympathetic German officer. A truly unforgettable epic, testifying to both the power of hope and the resiliency of the human spirit, The Pianist is a miraculous tale of survival masterfully brought to life by visionary filmmaker Roman Polanski in his most personal movie ever.
Harkins Camelview Theaters, 7001 East Highland Ave Scottsdale Harkins Chandler Crossroads, 2980 East Germann Rd Chandler Narrated by Dustin Hoffman and produced by Moriah Films, the Academy Awardwinning documentary division of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Against the Tide is an indictment of US indifference to the Holocaust. At the heart of this historical examination is Peter Bergson, a young Zionist firebrand who challenged the isolationism of the Roosevelt administration and American Jewish organizations. Through a never before seen 1977 interview, Bergson provides a first-hand account of his success in attracting the support of non-Jewish congressmen and Hollywood personalities. Against the Tide is both heroic and heart-wrenching, juxtaposing Bergson’s dogged activism with the stories of doomed Jews in Europe who mistakenly put their faith in their American allies.
MAY 1, 1:00 pm Phoenix Art Museum 1625 North Central Ave
APR 21
THU 7:30 pm
APR 23
SAT 8:00 pm
Verdi La Forza del Destino (Overture) Mahler Songs of a Wayfarer Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 (Scottish)
Thursday’s concert is sponsored by The Phoenix Symphony Board of Overseers
When the long-lost “red violin,” a rare instrument crafted during the Italian Renaissance, shows up at a modern auction, it reveals its mysterious history—and the lives of its previous owners—in a series of flashbacks spanning three centuries. Samuel L. Jackson co-stars as a curious connoisseur in this acclaimed production that won an Oscar for Best Original Score and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
MAY 1 1:00 pm
FILM SCREENING The Red Violin Phoenix Art Museum Free and open to the public.
MAY 18
WED 7:30 pm, Congregation Beth Israel
MAY 19
THU 6:30 pm, Symphony Hall
LECTURE Jewishness in Music: GermanJewish Opera After Wagner Speaker: Kenneth Reinhard, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, UCLA
RM Concert 8 performed as part of The Red Violin concert.
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MAY 19
THU 7:30 pm
MAY 21
SAT 8:00 pm
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Corigliano Red Violin Concerto Williams Theme from Schindler’s List Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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About The Lecturers All lectures and community events for The Phoenix Symphony Rediscovered Masters Series are FREE and open to the public.
‘Indian Summer in Levocˇa’ music festival in Slovakia. He is presently based in Kiev, Ukraine.
Born in Israel, Professor HAVA TIROSH-SAMUELSON holds a B.A. in Religious Studies from SUNY in Stony Brook and a Ph.D. in Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prior to joining the faculty of Arizona State University, she was on the faculty of Columbia University, Emory Univerity, Indiana Univeresity and served as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and Oxford University, England.
ROBERT J. ELIAS is the Executive Director of The OREL Foundation, which is devoted to the work of European composers who were suppressed during the Nazi years. Mr. Elias has served as Executive Director of The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Music Teachers National Association as well as President and CEO of the Warren County (OH) Foundation. A graduate of The University of Southern California, he spent a year in Hungary studying the educational methods of composer-pedagogue Zoltán Kodály at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. Upon completion of his Kodály diploma, Mr. Elias pursued graduate studies in Historical Musicology at USC and served as a teaching assistant in the School of Music. He is a frequent guest lecturer at colleges, universities and institutions around the United States.
A social and cultural historian of the Jews of Central Europe, Professor MARSHA ROZENBLIT has published The Jews of Vienna, 1867-1914: Assimilation and Identity. She is currently working on a book exploring the relationship between Jews and other Germans in Moravia between 1848 and 1938. Professor Rozenblit has also written many articles on Jewish religious reform in nineteenth-century Vienna, synagogue selection in nineteenthcentury Baltimore, and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America during the Holocaust. She served as Director of the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies from 1998 to 2003. She is also a fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research. R. LARRY TODD is the author of Mendelssohn: A Life in Music (Oxford Univ. Press), named best biography of 2003 by the Association of American Publishers, and described in the New York Review of Books as “likely to be the standard biography for a long time to come.” As Arts & Sciences Professor of Music and former chair of the Music Department, where he has taught for three decades, Todd has published widely on nineteenth-century music with a focus on Mendelssohn and his sister Fanny Hensel. He is a former fellow of the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute and recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and National Humanities Center. DAVID SCHILDKRET joined the faculty of the Herberger College School of Music at Arizona State University as Professor of Choral Music in 2002. Schildkret holds the Doctor of Music and the Master of Music degrees in Choral Conducting from Indiana University School of Music. In addition to teaching at ASU, he is the Music Director of the Mount Desert Summer Chorale in Bar Harbor, Maine, and is Director of Music at Scottsdale United Methodist Church. DAVID CONWAY was born in London and majored in Economics and Psychology at King’s College, Cambridge. Since 1992 he has been a Senior Expert for European Union development aid projects in the former Soviet Union. He was awarded his doctorate at University College London (where he is now an Honorary Research Fellow) for his thesis ‘Jewry in Music: Jewish Entry to the Musical Professions, 1780-1850’; his book of the same title is to be published in 2011. He is a regular contributor to the ‘Wagner Journal’ and organizes the annual
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JOEL REVZEN holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in conducting from The Juilliard School, which bestowed upon him their Frank Damrosch Prize in Conducting. Among his other distinctions are: winner of the Berkshire Opera’s Silver Rose Award, an Honorary Degree from the St. Louis Conservatory, and recipient of the Florida Grand Opera’s 2008-09 Henry C. Clark Conductor Award. He is the Artistic Director of the Arizona Opera and frequently performs as guest conductor throughout the United States and Europe. KENNETH REINHARD is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA. He received his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University in English and American Literature in 1989. His fields of research and teaching include the History of Critical and Aesthetic Theory, Contemporary Critical Theory (Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Political Theory), and Jewish Studies.
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