Performing the Jewish Archive Out of the Shadows

Performing the Jewish Archive

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•Program Booklet

August 30, 2015•

Out of the

Shadows: Rediscovering Jewish Music,

Literature and Theater


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Welcome

Welcome from Dr. Teryl Dobbs, University of Wisconsin–Madison

It is my distinct privilege to welcome each one of you to Out of the Shadows: Rediscovering Jewish Music, Literature and Theater, the day-long inaugural performance event produced by the United Kingdom’s Arts and Humanities Research Council large grant, Performing the Jewish Archive. The University of Wisconsin–Madison and the City of Madison are uniquely situated as the sole hosts for our project’s performance events within the United States: one of the premier public research-intensive universities in the world, located in a community that lives and breathes diverse arts, while striving for social change.

Dr. Stephen Muir, University of Leeds, UK, leads our remarkable international team of scholars-researchers, an ensemble comprised of musicologists and performers, historians, educators, and a psychologist: each of us committed to understanding an all-too-often traumatic past in order to propose a more caring—and perhaps—more just future. The vision for this project is firmly rooted within the arts and humanities, the idea that difficult questions regarding the human condition are sometimes best posed, explored, and answered through the coming-together of people and art, music, literature, theatre.

Thank you for choosing to spend this day or part of the day with Out of the Shadows: Rediscovering Jewish Music, Literature and Theater and the project team. Again, welcome, and I look forward to your joining us for our five-day festival in May 2016.

Welcome from Dr. Stephen Muir, University of Leeds, UK

The manifold catastrophes of the 20th century tore holes in the cultural fabric of Europe. Performing the Jewish Archive seeks to help re-knit certain threads across those gaps by injecting new life into recently rediscovered musical, theatrical, and literary works by Jewish artists, many of which are thought to have been lost or have, until recently, languished in obscurity.

The international interdisciplinary team of thirteen are all motivated by a desire to recover and engage anew with artifacts from the Jewish archive (itself a theoretical concept as well as a collection of physical repositories), to stimulate the creation of new works to re-animate existing archival repositories, and to challenge the very essence of what archives are and what they mean in today’s society. And we aim to understand scientifically how audiences engage with the performances that are presented.

At the heart of the project are our five International Performance Festivals. Spanning the globe, these take us from Madison, U.S. (May 2016), to Leeds and York, UK (June 2016), the Czech Republic (September 2016), Sydney, Australia (August 2017), and Cape Town, South Africa (September 2017), showcasing the outcomes of our research, supported by an exhibition and a series of educational projects. We’re delighted to be here in Madison to provide a taster of what is to come, and hope you will join us again next year for the full five-day festival!

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Welcome BrunchAlumni Lounge, Pyle Center

702 Langdon Street

12:20 – 2:00 PM Sound Salon, Mayrent Institute for Yiddish CultureMills Hall, School of Music

3561 Mosse Humanities Building, 455 N. Park Street

2:30 – 4:30 PM Concert, Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society Atrium Auditorium, First Unitarian Society

900 University Bay Drive

7:00 – 10:00 PM Two-act Cabaret Evening “Laugh With Us,” written in the Terezin ghetto and “Mark Nadler’s I'm a Stranger Here Myself," performed by a New York cabaret artist and musicians Promenade Hall, Overture Center for the Arts

201 State Street

All performance events are free and open to the public. Reservations required due to limited capacity. Brunch must be reserved for $12/person. Register via http://eepurl.com/bttx_9

Today’s Schedule Welcome Brunch

Welcome ConcertBach Dancing & Dynamite Society

Sound Salon withSherry Mayrent & Henry Sapoznik Performances

‘Laugh with Us’ from the Terezín Ghetto and ‘Mark Nadler’s I’m a Stranger Here Myself’

Today’s Schedule Schedule of Events

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Pre-concert lecture“Laugh With Us”� Intermission �

“Mark Nadler’s I’m a Stranger Here Myself”

Two-act Cabaret Evening

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10:00 am – 12:00 pm Alumni Lounge, Pyle Center

702 Langdon Street

• Nosh, kibitz, and schmooze! •

Meet the event's international team of scholars and partners and join them for a delicious brunch as they share their insights on the coming together of

Jewish archives, music, theater, and literature and what it means for the future.

MaDiSon ProjecT ParTnerS

School of Music, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. SUSAN Cook, Director and Professor of Music

Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society, STEPHANIE JUTT, Artistic Director and Professor of Flute, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Arts Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, NorMA SALDIvAr, Executive Director and Professor of Theatre and Drama

Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, HENrY SAPozNIk, Director

Madison Youth Choirs, MICHAEL roSS, Artistic/Executive Director

Mosse-Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. SIMoNE SCHWEBEr, Director, and Judith B. and Michael S. Goodman Professor in Education and Jewish Studies; Dr. rACHEL BrENNEr, Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor in Jewish Studies

Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra, JAMES SMITH, Music Director and Professor of Music, University of

Wisconsin-Madison, and BrIDgET FrASEr, Executive Director

inTernaTionaL co-inveSTigaTorS

Dr. STEPHEN MUIr, Senior Lecturer in Musicology and Performance, School of Music, University of Leeds, UK

Dr. TErYL DoBBS, Associate Professor and Chair, Music Education, School of Music and Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Dr. LISA PESCHEL, Lecturer, Department of Theatre, Film and Television, University of York, UK

Dr. NICk BArrACLoUgH, Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of York, UK

Dr. DAvID FLIgg, Project Consultant, Performing the Jewish Archive, University of Leeds, UK

Dr. SIMo MUIr, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Performing the Jewish Archive, University of Leeds, UK






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BirDSong

He doesn’t know the world at allWho stays in his nest and doesn’t go out.He doesn’t know what birds know best

Nor what I want to sing about,That the world is full of loveliness.

When dewdrops sparkle in the grassAnd the earth’s aflood with morning light,

A blackbird sings upon a bushto greet the dawning after night.

Then I know how fine it is to live.

Hey, try to open up your heartTo beauty; go to the woods someday

And weave a wreath of memory there.Then if the tears obscure your wayYou’ll know how wonderful it is

To be alive.

~ 1941 youth in Theresienstadt ghetto

(H. Volavková. (1993). …I Never Saw Another Butterfly…New York: Schocken Books, pp. 80 – 81.)

12:20 – 2:00 pm Mills Hall, School of Music

3561 Mosse Humanities Building, 455 n. Park St.

In honor of Performing the Jewish Archive on August 30, the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture will offer a special lecture/demonstration and concert illustrating the rich holdings of the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture collection of some 9,000 Yiddish recordings from the first half of the 20th century.

Collection founder and Institute donor Sherry Mayrent will offer an historic overview of her collection and explain the diversity and focus of one of the world’s great Jewish sound archives.

Institute founding director Henry Sapoznik will give a premier presentation on one of the most important Jewish sound discoveries of recent years. Sapoznik will discuss and play the world’s earliest known recordings of Jewish music first issued by the Thomas Lambert Company of Chicago starting in 1901 recently acquired by the Institute.

Among the collection is the earliest known performance of the cornerstone song, “Rozhkinkes mit Mandlen" (“Raisins and Almonds"), composed just 20 years before the recording by the father of Yiddish theater, Abraham Goldfaden, for his opera, “Shulamith,” and recorded while its composer still lived.

The Sound Salon will conclude with Sherry Mayrent (clarinet) and Henry Sapoznik (tenor guitar) playing selections learned from recordings in the collection. •SHErrY MAYrENT came to her first KlezKamp, in 1987, an accomplished clarinetist in styles other than klezmer. Within a few years, she transitioned from student of an annual Yiddish folk arts program in New York, to apprentice to staff in 1995 and in 2001, she became the Associate Director of Living Traditions and KlezKamp. Her KlezKamp experience led to her becoming the clarinetist and musical director of the Wholesale Klezmer band, the Western Massachusetts ensemble she joined in 1990. She recently left that group to concentrate her energies on the Living Traditions Online Sound Archive, of which she is co-director. She is also a record producer and a prolific composer of traditional klezmer tunes, and has published several books of klezmer charts, as well as creating a volume of traditional klezmer styles for PG Music’s auto-accompaniment program, “Band in a Box.” Her passion for traditional Yiddish culture is equaled only by her passion for traditional Hawaiian culture.

HENrY SAPozNIk is an award winning author, radio and record producer and performer of traditional Yiddish and American music. A five time Grammy nominee, Sapoznik co-produced the "Yiddish Radio Project" series for NPR’s "All Things Considered," winning the 2002 Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism while his score for the documentary film The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg was nominated for an Emmy. Sapoznik founded "KlezKamp: The Yiddish Folk Arts Program" which just concluded after 30 years and is the Founding Director of the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Sapoznik is currently at work on a box set of 78 rpms by blackface singer/banjoist Harry C. Browne and a reissue of the recently discovered c. 1901 Lambert Yiddish cylinders for Archeophone Records.






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2:30 – 4:30 pm Atrium Auditorium, First Unitarian Society

900 University Bay Drive

Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society is proud to partner with PJA’s Out of the Shadows event by performing neglected and suppressed Jewish music from the early 20th century.

Our program includes music from two composers who died at Auschwitz. Erwin Schulhoff’s flute sonata is a passionate mix of impressionism and jazz. Dick Kattenburg’s quartet for flute, violin, cello, and piano is an irrepressible romp full of Gershwin-esque melodies and harmonies. Robert Kahn is a composer from an earlier generation whose work was suppressed by the Nazis. We perform his gorgeous song cycle “Jungbrunnen” (the fountain of youth) for soprano, violin, cello, and piano. The program concludes with two works by the Viennese wunderkind Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Already well-known in Austria, Korngold had begun to compose music for Hollywood movies. He was working California in 1938 when the Anschluss took place, and he never returned to his homeland. We begin with three beautiful songs he composed for his mother and continue with his Suite for piano left-hand, two violins, and cello based on those songs. A thrilling and important composition, the Suite was written for the Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who had lost his right arm in World War I.

BacH Dancing & DynaMiTe SocieTy

EMILY BIrSAN, sopranoSTEPHANIE JUTT, flute

PArrY kArP, cello LEANNE LEAgUE, violin

AxEL STrAUSS, violinJEFFrEY SYkES, piano

PrograM

erWin ScHULHoff (1894-1942) Flute Sonata (1928)

Allegro moderatoScherzoAriaRondo-Finale

jUTT, SyKeS

roBerT KaHn (1865-1951)Seven Songs from Jungbrunnen, op. 46, for soprano and piano trio (1906)

Nun stehen die RosenMein Herzblut geht in SprüngenWaldesnacht, du wunderkühleWie bin ich nun in kühler NachtWie trag’ ich doch im SinneIn der Mondnacht, in der FrühlingsmondnachtEs geht ein Wehen durch den Wald

BirSan, LeagUe, KarP, SyKeS

DicK KaTTenBUrg (1919-1944)Quartet for flute, violin, cello and piano (1929-1940)

Alla marciaAndante dolorosa (fur Ilse)Finale: Allegro assai

jUTT, STraUSS, KarP, SyKeS

• Intermission •ericH WoLfgang KorngoLD (1897-1957)Three Songs, op. 22, for soprano and piano (1930)

Was Du mir bist?Mit Dir zu schweigenWelt ist stille eingeschlafen

BirSan, SyKeS

ericH WoLfgang KorngoLD (1897-1957)Suite, op. 23, for piano left hand, two violins, and cello (1930)

Präludium und FugeWalzerGroteskeLiedRondo-Finale

STraUSS, LeagUe, KarP, SyKeS






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BACH DANCINg & DYNAMITE SoCIETY brings “chamber music with a bang” to enthusiastic audiences in Madison and south-central Wisconsin. Since 1992, flutist Stephanie Jutt and pianist Jeffrey Sykes have been inviting world-class musicians to join them in a three-week summer festival that puts the element of "play" back into chamber music, showing that chamber music concerts, often serious to the point of stuffiness, can be seriously fun. Our programming is eclectic, ranging from the greatest masterpieces to the newest music hot off the press. Also, our June performances are a visual as well as aural feast: each season we commission art installations to create an atmosphere more inviting—and exciting—than the traditional concert stage. “What Bach would be doing if he were more fun and less dead.” For more about us, visit bachdancinganddynamite.org.

Founding Artistic Director and flutist STEPHANIE JUTT is professor of flute at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the principal flutist of the Madison Symphony and the recipient of the International Concert Artist Guild and Pro Musicis Awards.

Founding Artistic Director and pianist JEFFrEY SYkES is a faculty member of the University of California-Berkeley. He is a member of the San Francisco Piano Trio.

Soprano EMILY BIrSAN has completed her third year as a member of the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music, she is appearing with the Boston Lyric Opera this year.

Cellist PArrY kArP is artist-in-residence and professor of chamber music and cello at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been cellist of the Pro Arte Quartet for the past 37 years.

violinist LEANNE kELSo LEAgUE is assistant concertmaster of the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, and associate concertmaster of the Madison Symphony Orchestra. She also teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and is a member of the Ancora String Quartet.

violinist AxEL STrAUSS, winner of the International Naumburg Award, is professor of violin at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University in Montreal. He is also a member of the San Francisco Piano Trio.

To oLga

Listen!The boat whistle has sounded now

And we must sail Out toward an unknown port.

We’ll sail a long, long wayAnd dreams will turn to truth.

Oh, how sweet the name Morocco!Listen!

Now it’s time.

The wind sings songs of far away.Just look up to heaven

And think about the violets

Listen!Now it’s time.

~Alena Synkova

(H. Volavková. (1993). …I Never Saw Another Butterfly…New York: Schocken Books, p. 61.) Page 7

7:00 – 10:00 pm Promenade Hall, Overture Center for the Arts

201 State Street

"LaUgH WiTH US"

The cabaret, Laugh with Us, was written and performed by Czech Jews in the Terezín ghetto in the summer of 1944, just a few months before mass transports sent two-thirds of the ghetto's population to Auschwitz. The cabaret, set in a postwar Prague identical to the authors' beloved Prague of the 1930s, features a comic duo who staged imagined meetings with their friends from Terezín in the theatres and music halls of the city, celebrating their artistic success. Only a few of the artists actually lived to tell the tale, but thanks to them, the script resurfaced during Dr. Lisa Peschel's research in the Czech Republic in 2005. Now, on the 10th anniversary of its rediscovery, we are proud to present excerpts from Laugh with Us. Songs, scenes and sketches will be performed by artists Ryan Lindberg, Sara Richardson, and musical director and pianist Craig Harris, who helped to develop a full adaptation (Why We Laugh by Kira Obolensky, to be re-staged this September in Minneapolis). In 2011, they took the cabaret home, performing it in Terezín, for an audience that included the last living author of Laugh with Us.

"MarK naDLer'S i'M a STranger Here MySeLf"

The heart, soul and tears of the music that helped define Broadway in its Golden Age was inextricably linked to a magical—and sinister—several years in pre- WWII Berlin. It was a brief period when the creative strangers of society: poets, playwrights, songwriters, most of whom were either Jewish or gay or both, were embraced and even exalted. It's this smart, sexy, jazz- fueled, booze -soaked era that the astonishing, multi- award winning entertainer, Mark Nadler, brings to life in I’m a Stranger Here Myself—the deeply emotional undercurrents of a society about to break itself into a million pieces. It's an epic story and, at the same time, a poignantly personal one featuring songs by Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht, Friedrich Hollander and even such American songwriters as Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz and Ira Gershwin: songs that express declarations of identity, resistance in the fear of terror and hope for survival. After experiencing this show, stories from "the old country" will suddenly bust to life as the headiest, hippest, most sweltering time in recent history! I’m a Stranger Here Myself received the 2013 Nightlife Award and was nominated for a 2013 Helpmann Award (Australia's Tony Award) and a 2014 Drama Desk Award.






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May 1 – 5, 2016

a five-Day coLLaBoraTion of cULTUraL evenTS To incLUDe:

Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society

Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture

UW–Madison Arts Institute

UW–Madison Center for Jewish Studies

UW–Madison Department of Theatre and Drama

UW–Madison School of Music

Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra

Madison Youth Choir

anD MUcH More!






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