Yaacov
Bergman
Music Director
THE COMPOSERS -- SEPTEMBER 13, 2003
CONCERT
lived
and composed at the Oregon Coast from 1940 until the end of his life. The Music
Festival at Newport is named in his honor. He developed dynamically spiritual
music as a result of his violin studies in Geneva. His scores for strings are
ranked among the most distinguished achievements of early 20th-century music.
After a successful 1917 Boston premiere of his Trois Poemes Juifs he settled
in the U.S., where he directed at Cleveland Institute of Music, San Francisco
Conservatory of Music, and taught at Univ. of California at Berkeley.
studied
and later taught in Tel-Aviv, Berlin and Salzburg. Noted for his originality
in fusing musical elements of ancient Mediterranean countries and the musical
culture of the West, he premiered "Festival Prelude" in 1957 with
the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Leonard Bernstein. Since then, his works
are performed regularly all over the world. As newly appointed Music Director
of the Israel Chamber Orchestra, he is the winner of the 2003 EMET PRIZE, the
highest award in Israel for excellence in science and culture.
Noam
Sheriff
Ernest
Bloch (1880-1959)
Hear
the Northwest Premiere of "Tfilot"(Prayers) by Noam Sheriff
Hear
the "Concert Grosso No. 1 for Strings Orchestra and Piano" by Bloch
Hear the Northwest
Premiere of "Celestial Dialogues" by Ofer Ben-Amots
Hear an interview
with composer Ben-Amots on the "Yiddish Hour" with host Jack "Yankl"
Falk
Sunday, September 7, from 10 - 11 a.m. on KBOO-FM 90.7
was
born in Israel and has been a concert pianist since age nine, winning his initial
first prize at age 16. He holds degrees in composition, music theory, and piano
and attended schools in Switzerland, Germany, and the US, receiving a PhD in
music composition from University of Pennsylvania. He is an associate professor
of music composition and theory at Colorado College. His highly personal and
emotional music compositions are recognized for weaving folk elements with contemporary
textures on a backdrop of unique orchestration.
Ofer
Ben-Amots
was
born in Budapest where he studied composition, piano and ethnomusicology. A
decade of researching Gypsy folk music and Hasidic music led to his move to
Israel in 1966 to concentrate on composition and teaching. Hajdu lectures at
the Universities of Tel Aviv and Bar-Ilan, receiving a professorship at the
latter and eventually accepting chairmanship of Bar-Ilan's Musicology Department.
Awarded the Israel Prize for Music in 1997, his compositions include works for
symphony orchestra, cantatas, and piano educational works.
Andre
Hajdu
Hear
the Northwest Premiere of "Truat Melech" (Shout of a King) by Hajdu
Portland
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