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COMPOSEH 0$kar Morawtetz presents score off From the Diary of Anne ^laiilr to former Israel Premier the late Golds Melr, during her, visit to Toronto In t974.
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, under Kazuyoshi Akiyamav and mezzo-soprano Judith fforrestf will perform Toronto Jewish composer Oskar Morawetz^s acclaimed work, ^From jhe Diary of Anne Frmk, during three upcoming concerts ^a't the;' Orpheum theatre. '^^^
The piece, based on *lhe Diary passage which-refetc's Anne's anguish at the ^transport of hex l^est friend Lies Goosens < to^ concentration camp, is jslatcd- for {ui^en-tation on Sunday, - Jaii. 30, 2:30 p.m.; Monday, Jan. 31 at 8:30 p.m.; ^nd Tuesday, Feb. 1,7:30 p.m.
number of well-known classical compositioiisc^cl^ts are available .from Vancouver Ticket Centre.
^ Morawetrwillbeinthecity for the VSQ coiticerts and during his visit, will address a special evening open to the commirntty, Thursday, Jan. 27,^8 p.m. at Temple Sholom, 4426 ,W. 10th Ave. Thf cy^nt, .sponsored by T.S. Brotherhood, will hear the composer speak -on the work, play tapes of his conversations with Anne's father Otto Frank, and show special photos of the Frank family, the Temple office has further information at 224-1381.
From the Diary of Anne Frank premiered in Toronto in 1970 and received atSpecial award front the Segai Fund, Montreal, in 1971 as "th^ most important contribution to Jewish culture and music in Canada". The work received a
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in winter 1944; AnneFi-ank was discovered in hiding in the-home of Dutch friends in Amsterdam and sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, where she accidently met Lies., who had miraculously survived. rTbey saw each^other only briefly through a barbed wire fence and ^ cried . prpfusely. Anne died in the camp seven weeks before the end of the war — not yet 16. Lies survived and is niarried ^nd living today, in Israel.
Oskar Morawetz was born in Czechoslovakia and moved to Canada in 1940 at age 23, one of only some 5^000 Jews allowed into the country^ during the war years. Since then, he has established himself as one of Canada's
leading and most frequently performed composerSi with his pieces programmed by nearly 120 orchestras throughout the world.
Professor of composition at U niversity of Toronto since 1958, he has been awarded a
' Canada Council Senior Arts -Fellowship three times for his contribution to Canadian
' music.
' Morawetz stated that when he finally mustered his emotions to read-the Diary; he was so struck by the beauty of its passages that he was determined to set parts of it to music. Otto Frank was so impressed by the work, thatlie sent the composers prized family possession, a small silver dish^ following premiere of the piece in 1970. .
The J, unique handmade paper constructions of Wendy Oberlander, are being displayed this month rn the Gallery of Temple Sholom, ^4424 W.aOth Av£ Hows of viewing for the exhibit, which continues through Jan. 28, are. Monday to Friday, A30 a,m. . to noon and 1:30 to 4 p.m.
Oberlander's works have been shown in Canada and the U.S., including at Robson Square Media Centre m Vancouver and, at Montgomery Art Gallery in Claremont, California.
A 1982 graduate of Pomona College where she received a bachelor of arts *with distinction', her major concentration was in studio art, with emphasis on the craft of handmaking paper. In addition to being a published photographer, she has worked as a graphic artist in Cali-^ fornia, where "her experience focused on newspaper and "advertisement design and layout.
Oberlander will hold a workshop on handmade, paper at Temple Sholom on Jan. 23, 9:45 a.m. until noon.
INSTITUTE OF ADULT JEWISH STUDIES has slated >the following courses for spring term. Humor in Jewish^ literature,^ Inferno-tional terrorism and Understanding the Biblical narrative. All courses will be held Wednesday evenings commencing Feb. 2 from 8 to 9:^0 p.m. at; the Centre, with registration that night from 7:30 p.m.
Music at Diaspora Museum
-^TEL AVIV — Most visitors to Tel Aviv's Diaspora Museum who used to leave the building after several hours of looking at exhibits, films and^ slide-shows, hardly realized that one important aspect of Jewish life was not represented. After all, the plethora of information on family life, religion and the position of Jews in the various periods and countries, can hardly all be absorbed in one visit.
But now. the discerning visitors who — till recently — would question the absence of Jewish music, will fmd on their next visit that the hiatus has been taken care of.
The new Jewish Musical Centre on the second floor — the one devoted to Jewish culture — fills the gap. Here the museum visitor can listen to cassettes he chooses from the catalogue of Jewish religious, art and folklore works.
Musicologist Avner Bahat, 50, has defmed Jewish music for the purpose of being "^admitted" to his new venture as *^music written by Jews or by non-Jews for Jews".
Thus far. Dr. Bahat, who hasa Ph.D. in musicology from the ^Sorbonnc4 has recorded some 100 cassettes of Bible cantilations, cantorial linusic^ festival chants, ghetto songs and folk songs, to mention only some of the ^categories — but this is-only the beginning. '
The sources from which he retrieves the music are nnusicdlogic^l i^searc^ collections, such as the National Sound Archives in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusaleni; as well as commercial recordings.
As Bahat points out, the Jewish Musical Centre is unique in that it cbihbines both sciehtific and commercial recordings, and as such it is the only archive of its kind available to the public-at-large.
The listening section has individual booths as well as an acoustical room for groups. Listeners have the use of a cO|nputeri;^ed catalogue from which they can select the music they want to hearaccording to Bible section, poets, composers, composition subjects, traditions and languages.
Thus far works are available in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladinoand Arabic.
The Centre was financed by Israel industrialist Gershon Rosow and through an auction of art wprks. Bahat^ who. is music advisor to the museum, is also responsible for the musical content of the museum's^pecial programs. ,
In the ifoUr years of its existence, the NahumGoldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, as it is officially known, has established itself as an outstanding educational and tourist project, diawing one-and-a-half million visitors, half of them tourists.
"The striking viray in which the museum's designers have succeeded in presenting the many ramifications and facets of one main theme — Judaism — has won it a number of international awards. ARYEH LOUV
, Pianist Caria Dddek^^ will ' give a recital as part pf the Festival Soi^iet)^ *»Coff«e Concert" scries on Siiiiday. Jjin^ 16^. 11 a.m. at'Qneen Elt/abeth Playhouse. Ticket s - for t he, b our<^oh g^ prograth will be available at the door.
Dodeck. 24, is presently studying towards a master of music degree in piano' performance with Artur Baltiam-- at Manhattan School of Music in New York.
She began her studies at age seven with the late Pearl Mossfield, ' attaining an A.R.C.t. degree. She has received a bachelor of music (Victoria) with; Robin Wood and an L.R.A.M. (London, England) with Guy Jonson; and has taken piano master classes at Banff Summer School or Fine Arts with Gyorgy Sebok and" piano chamber music at Blue^ Hill,
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Maine with Artur Balsam.
Dodek was one of a selected few to play in a master class in Vancouver for Menachem Pressler of Beaux Arts Trio.. She has received nunierous awards and scholarships.
Hebraize nainies
JERUSALEM -t From now On, anyone appointed as a Je^wish Agency emissary will have to^ Hebraize his or her name before tieihg permitted to take up the appointment, the Zionist Executive has ruled. The two prganizations ha ve more than 700 emissaries in 31 coiihtric^^
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QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE
Jan. 22vii p^m.r Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m. Jan, 27, \^:30 p^m ^Jan; 29, 8 p.m.
Winifred Faix Brown (Violetta), Carlo Bini (Alfredo), Comelis Opthof (Germont), John Mitchell (Marquis D'Obigny), David Meek (Gastone), Helene McDonsAd (Annim),
Conductor: Anton Guadagno Director: Jacobo Kaufmann
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