A recital of
art, cabaret and tango songs
written by
Terezín composers
before and in the ghetto
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Featuring works in German, Czech and Yiddish by James Simon, Pavel Haas,
Hans Krása, Viktor Ullmann, Martin Roman, Adolf Strauss, Otto Skutečky, Dol
Dauber and Karel Švenk as well as contrafact songs of Fredy Raymond and
Emmerich Kálman.
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Programme
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Art songs
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James Simon (1880-1944)
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Jetzt rede du!
[Now you speak!], op. 6 No. 3 (1912)
Gebet
[Prayer], op. 6 No. 1 (1912)
Maiwunder
[Wondrous May], op. 4 No. 5 (1911)
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Pavel Haas
(1899-1944)
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Zapadá slniečko
[Twilight
hour], No. 5 of Six Songs in Folk Tone op.1 (1919)
Zrušení slibu
[Broken promise], No. 4 of Seven Songs in Folk
Tone op.18
Krotká holubička
[Doves are counting], No. 3 of op.18 (1939-40)
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Hans Krása (1899-1944)
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Fünf Lieder
[Five songs], op. 4 (1923)
I. Ihr Mädchen seid wie
die Gärten (RM Rilke)
II.
And die Brüder (Lettisches Volkslied)
III. Mach, daß etwas
uns geschieht! (RM Rilke)
IV. Die Liebe (Catullus)
V. Vice versa (C. Morgenstern)
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Adolf Strauss (1902-44)
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Ein Traum vom Glück
[A dream of happiness] (1920s?)
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Viktor Ullmann
(1898-1944) |
Sonnenuntergang
[Sunset] (c.1944)
Abendphantasie
[Evening fantasy] (c.1944)
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Cabaret songs and chamber music
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Adolf Strauss
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Ich weiss bestimt, ich werd dich wiedersehn!
[I
know for sure we’ll meet again!]
(1944) –
tango. Arr. Moshe Zorman.
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Dol Dauber
(1894-1945) |
Krb bez ohnĕ
(Daisy Jelenová) (1937) |
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Martin Roman
(1913-96) |
Ich muß sitzen
[I must sit],
(1944)
Wir reiten auf
Hölzernen Pferden
[We ride on wooden horses], (Karussell,
1944)
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Otto Skutečky
(1907-1944) |
Drunt im Prater ist ein Platzerl
[Down in the Prater is a little place] (1944)
Terezín Viennese song;
arr. Moshe Zorman.
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Fredy Raymond
(1900-1954) |
Und die Musik spielt
dazu
[And the music plays
on], (1938) – Parody foxtrot.
Und die Musik spielt dazu (Terezín, c.1942-4)
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Karel Švenk (1917-1945)
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Pod destnikem [Under an umbrella] - foxtrot; Arr. Moshe
Zorman
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Vsechno jde!
[Terezín march], (1942)
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Emmerich Kálman
(1882-1953)
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Terezín-Lied [Terezín song], from the operetta Gräfin
Mariza, (1924)
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Viktor Ullmann
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A meydl in di yorn
(folk)
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Biographies
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Lloica Czackis
was born in Germany to Argentinian parents and has lived in Venezuela,
Argentina, England and now in France. She studied singing and choral
conducting in Buenos Aires and at London’s Guildhall School of Music and
Drama under Vera Rosza and David Pollard. Her large repertoire ranges from
the Renaissance to the avant-garde, from opera to art songs, and from folk
to tango. Lloica has appeared as a soloist in numerous recital halls in the
UK, Europe and Argentina. Since 1999 she conceives and performs programmes
on Latin American and European 20th Century music, cabaret and
tango. Her sell-out show
Tangele: The Pulse of
Yiddish Tango
was granted a JMI Millennium Award in 2002, leading to
concerts in London, Brighton, Vienna, Paris and Brussels. She has also
presented her research in illustrated lectures across the UK and in an
article published in the Jewish Quarterly in 2003.
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David Bloch
was on the music faculty of Portland State University (USA) from 1964 until
1973, where he founded and directed The Group for New Music, one of the
campus-based contemporary music ensembles supported at that time by the
Rockefeller Foundation’s Arts Program. He moved to Israel in 1973 and in
1986 established the Terezín
Music Memorial Project. Since then, and with his colleagues in a second
Group for New Music, he has presented concerts in Israel, North America,
Europe, Russia and Uzbekistan. He is producer and artistic director of the
Terezín Music Anthology, a series of ten CDs documenting the surviving music composed and arranged in Terezín. He is
editor of a large collection of Terezín music and preparing it for
publication by Boosey & Hawkes/Bote & Bock. He was music consultant for
documentary films produced by BBC and Swedish Television, Visible Pictures
and Alliance Atlantis. Bloch has published articles on Terezín music,
lectures in Israel and abroad and is Professor of Musicology at Tel Aviv
University. He is music advisor for Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs’ and
Heroes’ Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem, and for the Terezín
International Music Center in the Czech Republic.
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This programme has been performed
in:
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- 23 September 2003 (Lloica Czackis & David Bloch).
Brundibár Project, Chetham's School of Music, Manchester.
- 28 October 2003 (Lloica Czackis & Miriam Brickman).
St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, London.
- 6 May 2004 (Lloica Czackis & Andrew Quartermain).
Terezín Day, Leamington Festival, UK.
- 26 October
2004 (Lloica Czackis & David Mazower)
Holocaust Centre, UK.
- 12 November
2005 (Lloica Czackis & Daniel Navia)
Festival de Voix Etoufees, Ivry sur Seine, France |
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That’s a strange journey,
That’s a trip without an aim.
We cannot get out of the circle
And yet we experience a lot.
(Leo Strauss)
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