Jewish Music in Germany After the Holocaust: A Colloquium

Sponsored by the Bullard Music and Culture Fund as well as the Asbell Center for Jewish Life and the Departments of Music, German, and Judaic Studies.

Friday, February 25th 2011 2-4pm Stern 102

Kick off Panel Session, "Music and Trauma"

4:30pm Stern Great Room

Keynote Address, "Toward a History of Represence in the Post-Holocaust Germanys" Philip V. Bohlman, Professor of Ethnomusicology (University of Chicago)

Saturday, February 25th 2011 and Sunday, February 26th 2011

Beginning at 9:30am Stern 102

Academic Panel Sessions on Postwar Jewish Music in Germany

After the Holocaust: A Film Series

Friday, February 25th 2011 8:30pm

Weiss 235

Long is the Road (1948)

Shot on location at the largest displaced persons camp in U.S.-occupied Germany, the film follows a Polish Jew and his family from the thriving Jewish community of prewar Warsaw to the frustrations of refugee life in the DP camps. Directed by Herbert Fredersdorf.

Saturday, February 26th 2011 7:30pm

Weiss 235

A Foreign Affair (1948)

Featuring the stunning Marlene Dietrich as an ex-Nazi Café singer and Jean Arthur as the U.S. Congresswoman investigating her role in the war, the film is set in occupied Berlin just after the war. Directed by Billy Wilder.

Friday, February 18th 2011 7:00pm

Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts

Residency Revisited: The Corigliano Quartet Returns

Elisa Barston,violin
Michael Jinsoo Lim, violin
Melia Watras, viola
Amy Sue Barston, cello

The acclaimed Corigliano Quartet, Dickinson College's first musical artists-in-residence, returns for a week-long residency culminating in a concert, featuring an exciting and varied program of works for string quartet.

Saturday, February 19th 2011 7:00pm

*****Concert Rescheduled*****

Speaking Music:

A Composition Residency and Concert featuring Guest Composer-in-Residence Mathew Rosenblum.

Endowed Bullard Music and Culture Series: World Music as Scholastic Practice

Dickinson College Music Department Faculty present a program of contemporary chamber music involving spoken word. The program will feature two works by guest composer Mathew Rosenblum, as well as works by Martin Bresnik and George Crumb. Program to open with remarks by Mr. Rosenblum. Also made possible by financial gifts from the Cecil Andrew and Adeleine Ewing Fund.

Featured Performers:
Mary Hannigan, flutes
Elisabeth Stimpert, clarinets
David Knott and Patrick Long, percussion
Blanka Bednarz, violin
Daniel Brye, viola
Michael Cameron, cello
Jennifer Blyth, piano
Robert Pound, conductor

Composition Residency Events

Thursday, February 17th 3-4:15pm

Rosenblum presents on his musical RedDust to Music 206, Music in The United States class. Weiss Center 221.

Saturday, February 19th

1:00pm-2:00pm Composers Masterclass with Mathew Rosenblum. Weiss Center 212.

3:30pm-4:30pm Open Rehearsal: “Maggies” with Mathew Rosenblum. Rubendall Recital Hall.

Friday, February 4th 2011 7:00pm

Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts

Guest Artist: Gabriela Diaz

Diaz will present a recital of works for solo violin written since 1970. Works include the sonic explorations of Salvatore Sciarrino's Six Caprices, selections from Gyorgy Kurtag's charming and vibrant Signs, Games and Messages, a journey through the violinist's inner lyricism in John Harbison's Four Songs of Solitude, Pierre Boulez's masterpiece, Anthemes, Iannis Xenakis' striking voyage, Mikka, and the virtuosic whimsy of Music for Strings, by Dickinson's own Robert Pound.

Saturday, February 5th 2011 7:00pm

Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts

German Song Recital

Sean Parr (tenor), visiting assistant professor of music, and collaborative pianist Eun Ae Baik-Kim will perform Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe, as well as songs by Richard Strauss and Franz Schubert, including Schubert’s famous setting of Goethe’s Erlkönig.

Sunday, February 6th 2011 3:00pm

Historic Fetter House in Landisburg, PA

Pianist George Bowerman, Dickinson College Student, performs works from the Classical, Romantic, Modern, and Contemporary repertoire. His program begins with Franz Joseph Haydn’s Sonata in E major, Hob. XVI: 31, a work that captures the wit and elegance of the classical era. The sonata is followed by music of the Modern composers Stefan Wolpe (1902-1972) and Raoul Pleskow (1931-). These pieces explore the idea of musical space, a critical element in modern and contemporary music. The second half of the program celebrates the bicentennial of the Hungarian piano virtuoso Franz Liszt, featuring three selections from his second Year of Pilgrimage (Italy): Sposalizio, Sonetto 104 del Petrarca, and the ‘Dante Sonata’.

This free performance is sponsored by the Perry County Council of the Arts. For more information: perrycountyarts.org, Sunday Arts Hour section.