The mists of sweet memory swirled bulky in Symphony Hall Monday night as
soprano Dawn Upshaw and pianists Gilbert Kalish and Simone Dinnerstein, amongst
others, graced the annual festival of the Terezín Music Foundation with rapt, fantastic
performances of music by Ives, Schumann and Bach, plus an animated world first
showing by Nico Muhly.
This foundation, named for the notorious attentiveness camp where the Nazis
sent best writers and talent musicians, is all about life memory, having been
founded in 1991 to sponsor the wonderful music of composers who died in the
Holocaust.
It now also most supports talented young composers of now days hence the
Muhly premiere, a brilliant part for piano solo posh you can’t get there for
here. The contemplative atmosphere began to collect before the music even started,
as gala attendees filed into the dimly-lit hall, and took seating near the
front, looking at a few chairs, types of music stands, and a piano that had
been brought to the front of the stage.
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