In honor of its 10th anniversary, the Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, has established an ongoing music series that celebrates Jewish culture through distinctive and eclectic programming. The second concert of the series features acclaimed pianists MISHA and CIPA DICHTER in a recital of Two and Four Hand Piano Masterworks on November 7 at 7 PM.
The 2007 2008 series begins with pianist Vladimir Feltsman in a concert entitled Vladimir Feltsman Virtuoso Pianist: Music from Poland and Russia on October 17. Future concerts featuring exclusive premier es and rarely heard works will be the centerpieces of the Spring 2008 program season to be announced shortly. The music series reflects the museum's dedication to honoring Jewish culture by focusing on
Jewish themes, composers, and artists, as well as the Museum's commitment to unearthing new and interesting musical works.
The Dichters' program includes a performance of El Salón Mexico, composed and arranged by Jewish American icons Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein; Mozart's Fantasia for Musical Clockwork, arrangement by Busoni; and selected works by Arensky. In the first half of the recital, Misha Dichter will give solo performances of pieces by Brahms, Schumann, and Liszt. The husband and wife pianists' last performance at the Museum — the world premier e of the two piano version of Babi Yar Remembered: Yevtushenko and Shostakovich in Word and Song — was called "illuminating" by The New York Times. At the conclusion of the program, the Dichters will be interviewed in an on stage, post concert conversation with WQXR's radio personality Elliott Forrest.
Additionally, the Museum's state of the art theater, Edmond J. Safra Hall, boasts the only Fazioli piano in a New York performance hall. Fazioli pianos have been produced in northern Italy since the company's establishment in 1981; each instrument is exclusively handcrafted combining the finest materials with premium workmanship and technology. Artists who ha veperfor med on Fazioli instruments around the world include Vladimir Ashkenazy, Alfred Brendel, Nikolai Demidenko, Hélène Grimaud, Angela Hewitt, Jeffrey Kahane, Louis Lortie and Garrick Ohlsson.
World renowned husband and wife pianists Misha and Cipa Dichter appeared together for the first time at the Hollywood Bowl in 1972, four years after their wedding. In the more than three decades since that concert, they have performed in recitals around the country and with symphony orchestras in Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Seattle, and Cincinnati. They perform regularly at many leading summer festivals including Aspen, Mostly Mozart, Ravinia, and Caramoor. Abroad they have performed in France, Germany, Holland, Spain, and Switzerland.
Elliott Forrest is a Peabody Award winning broadcaster and producer. He can be heard weekday afternoons on WQXR and on WQXR.com. He is also the host and producer of the national radio concerts of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, and The Seattle Symphony and a weekly podcast for the New York Philharmonic. For more than 12 years he was host of Breakfast with the Arts on A&E Television Network.
The Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust's three floor Core Exhibition educates people of all ages and backgrounds about the rich tapestry of Jewish life over the past century before, during, and after the Holocaust. Current special exhibitions include From the Heart: The Photojournalism of Ruth Gruber, The Other Promised Land: Vacationing, Identity, and the Jewish American Dream, and Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust.
Concert to be followed by an on stage conversation with Elliott Forrest from WQXR. Tickets are $35 for adults, $25 students/seniors and $15 for members. -- www.mjhnyc.org
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