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Morphy Hall
Mosse Humanities Building

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Elizabeth Blumenstock is a long-time concertmaster, leader, and soloist with the San Francisco Bay Area’s Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and American Bach Soloists, and is concertmaster of the International Handel Festival in Göttingen, Germany. In Southern California, Ms. Blumenstock has been Artistic Director of the Baroque Music Festival Corona del Mar since 2011. Her love of chamber music has involved her in several accomplished and interesting smaller ensembles including the Galax Quartet, Live Oak Baroque, Voices of Music, and Severall Friends. Ms. Blumenstock currently teaches for the Juilliard Historical Performance program, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the American Bach Soloists Festival and Academy, and the Valley of the Moon Music Festival. Her discography includes some 100 CDs for such labels as harmonia mundi usa, Dorian/Sono Luminus, Koch, Naxos, Reference Recordings, and Virgin Veritas. Ms. Blumenstock plays a 1660 Andrea Guarneri violin built in Cremona, Italy, on generous loan to her from the Philharmonia Baroque Period Instrument Trust.

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A World Within Worlds: Tsvey Brider in Concert
Presented by the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies

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A diverse group of cultural influences are woven into the music that Tsvey Brider (“Two Brothers”) has composed, arranged and performed: Yiddish art and folksong, African American spirituals, field calls and work songs, wordless melodies from the Chassidic tradition, French chanson and Ashkenazi Jewish cantorial music—just to name a few! Join vocalist Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell and multi-instrumentalist Dmitri Gaskin as they perform and unpack the sounds, idioms and histories behind the music they’ve created as the Yiddish songwriting duo, Tsvey Brider.

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Diverse idioms, styles and periods contrast and combine in Tsvey Brider, creating contemporary and unique interpretations of music in the Yiddish language. Winners of Mexico City’s Concurso Internacional de Canciones en Idish (Der Yidisher Idol), the members of Tsvey Brider have performed and recorded with such noted artists as Anthony Coleman, Daniel Kahn, Michael Winograd, Michael Alpert, Alan Bern, Yale Strom & Hot Pastromi and Veretski Pass.

Anthony Russell is a vocalist, composer and arranger specializing in Yiddish art and folk song. His work in Jewish music has brought him to Toronto, Montreal, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston, Miami, New York, Tel Aviv, Mexico City, Berlin, Warsaw, Krakow and London. He lives in Massachusetts.

Dmitri Gaskin is an accomplished accordionist, pianist, composer and arranger specializing in klezmer and Romanian folk music. Winner of the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award for a contemporary classical composition, Dmitri also formed Harmonikos, a performing collective of young composers and musicians. He lives in California with three accordions.

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Natalija Walker senior voice recital

Natalija Walker, soprano
Calvin Guse, piano
Jane Krasovich, viola
Alex Walker, tenor

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Program 

Durch Zaertlichkeit und schmeicheln   Wolfgang A. Mozart

En Priere     Gabriel Faure

Les Berceaux       Gabriel Faure

La lune blanche luit dans les bois      Gabriel Faure

Lilacs      Sergei Rachmaninov

How fair this spot      Sergei Rachmaninov

Crven Cvete       Jelena Bojovic

Intermission

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes       Jerome Kern

Misty        Erroll Garner

Stardust      Hoagy Carmichael

Burn       Lin Manuel Miranda

Little Miss Perfect      Joriah Kwame

I See the Light       Alan Menken

You’re just in love       Irving Berlin

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Natalija Walker is an Environmental Studies and Voice student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This is her Senior Recital, including pieces ranging from coloratura Mozart arias, to Broadway duets, to Serbian folk music. Her performance is a celebration of her progress as a musician and a collection of some of her favorite music. This recital is dedicated to her late Grandmother, Viktorija, and her fiancé, Alexis, and includes performances from Calvin Guse (piano), Jane Krasovich (viola), and Alex Walker (tenor). She hopes you enjoy attending this recital as much as she enjoyed performing it!

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Salvador Flores, soprano saxophone
Walt Puyear, alto saxophone
Matthew Koester, tenor saxophone
Brian Kachur, baritone saxophone

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Program

Summer’s Eve and Chase from Short Stories (1996)       Jennifer Higdon (b.1962)

Danzón No. 5: Portales de Madrugada (1997)      Arturo Marquez (b. 1950)

A Schumann Bouquet (2016)   Robert Schumann (1810-1856)/arr. William Bolcom (b.1938)
I. Lieber Mai
II. Knecht Ruprecht
III. Sheherazade
IV. Laendler
V. Sehr Langsam
VI. Lied italienischer Marinari

Intermission

Alaric I or II (1989)    Gavin Bryars (b. 1943)

Shifting Gears (2010)     Corey Dundee (b. 1991)

Cape Cod Chips     Hiromi Uehara (b.1979)/arr. Dundee