Out of Darkness: A Chamber Performance by The Blakemore Trio and Friends with a Lecture by Joy H. Calico, Professor of Musicology (10/28/17)
October 28th at 7 p.m.
Ingram Hall, Blair School of Music
Blair musicians Amy Dorfman, piano; Carolyn Huebl, violin; Felix Wang, cello; and friends Evan Bish, bass; Bil Jackson, clarinet; Amy Jarman, soprano; Christina McGann, viola; along with Joy H. Calico offer this lecture and performance to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the Vanderbilt Holocaust Lecture Series, a legacy program of the Office of the University Chaplain and Religious Life. The program will bear witness to the Holocaust through these compositions:
- Prayer (Three Pieces from Jewish Life) (1924), Ernest Bloch
- Rhapsody No. 3 on Moldavian Themes Op. 47 (1949), Mieczyslaw Weinberg
- String Trio (1944), Gideon Klein
- Another Sunrise (2012), Music by Jake Heggie, Libretto by Gene Scheer, based on the life and writing of Krystyna Zywulska. Commissioned and premiered by Music of Remembrance (Mina Miller, Artistic Director) and first performed at MOR Holocaust Remembrance Concerts at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA.
