Please join us in April for a symposium and musical performances on recovering memory and culture after the Holocaust, a collaboration between the Mondavi Center and the Jewish Studies Program.
For more than 25 years, James Conlon has championed works and drawn deserved attention to composers whose names and works had very nearly been eliminated from history.
“Recovered Voices” is a two-day event held exclusively at the UC Davis Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts on April 10 and 11, 2023. This event is a product of the Ziering-Conlon Initiative for Recovered Voices, a unique Colburn School of Music program that encourages greater awareness and more frequent performances of music by composers whose careers and lives were disrupted—or worse—during the years of the Nazi regime in Europe.
The event will feature performances by a Chamber Orchestra (4/10) and Chamber Music Ensemble (4/11) made up of Colburn students and led by Maestro Conlon, as well as a symposium featuring Conlon and faculty from the UC Davis Jewish Studies Program.
Pre-Performance Symposium:
April 11, 4:00 pm: Recovering Memory and Culture After the Holocaust
Recovering a Musical Heritage from the Nazi Suppression
Keynote address by James Conlon, Artistic Director and Conductor of the Ziering-Conlon Initiative for Recovered Voices, and an internationally renowned conductor and Music Director of the Los Angeles Opera (since 2006).
Recovered Literary Voices: Rescued Writings from Ghettos in Poland
Professor Sven-Erik Rose, Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature at UC Davis. Professor Rose is a leading scholar of German-Jewish thought, Yiddish culture, and Holocaust literature in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Beyond Anne Frank: the Hidden Stories of Hidden Children in the Netherlands after World War II
Professor Emerita Diane Wolf, Department of Sociology, UC Davis. Throughout her career, Professor Wolf’s work has focused on family dynamics amidst structural transformations with an emphasis on gender, trauma, memory, and identity in postwar Europe.
Musical Performances:
April 10, 7:30 pm: Chamber Orchestra Program
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Much Ado About Nothing Suite for Chamber Orchestra [‘16]
Arnold Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1 [‘21]
Franz Schreker: Chamber Symphony [‘24]
April 11, 7:30 pm: Chamber Music Ensemble Program
Alexander von Zemlinsky: Maiblumen Blühten Überall for Voice and String Sextet ['10]
Arnold Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht for String Sextet [‘29]
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: String Sextet [‘35]
Tickets:
These events are provided free to the public with support from donors to the Mondavi Center’s Artistic Ventures Program. Please reserve tickets here.