PacificOperaVictoria | For All to Hear | Jaclyn Grossman & Nate Ben-Horin | January 13, 2022 @PacificOperaVictoria | Uploaded January 2022 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
Join Rebecca Hass, Director of Community Engagement, in conversation with Jaclyn and Nate as they discuss their exploration of Holocaust composers and reconciling their own Jewish identity as Western Classical musicians.
Jaclyn and Nate first worked together on Richard Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder – a significant beginning point, given Wagner’s well know anti-Semitic reputation. Fast forward to 2020 and they find themselves collaborating on a recital focused on the music of lesser known Jewish composers work from the time of The Holocaust, The Shoah Songbook. Through this journey, they have become passionate supporters of the music of composers like Victor Ullman and Ilsa Weber, whom they believe belong in our standard canon, and are important composers in the German tradition.
The first installment in The Shoah Songbook is available to watch on demand on Jaclyn’s website (jaclyngrossman.com/), and the second in the series, Kovno/Vilna (hgjewishtheatre.com/2021-2022-ShoahSongbook2.html), will be available online January 27, 2022 for International Holocaust Remembrance Day and is presented by the Harold Green Jewish Theatre. The Shoah Songbook is anticipated to be composed of five installments.
Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:20 About Shoah (catastrophe) Song Book
2:48 The Collaboration Process
4:30 Music during the Holocaust
6:18 Music research
8:30 A Composer's insight
11:00 What does this mean to you?
13:00 Appropriate Performance Practice
15:45 Wagner VS Social Responsibility
20:45 Ownership
22:58 Response to Wagner
23:50 Inclusivity
Join Rebecca Hass, Director of Community Engagement, in conversation with Jaclyn and Nate as they discuss their exploration of Holocaust composers and reconciling their own Jewish identity as Western Classical musicians.
Jaclyn and Nate first worked together on Richard Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder – a significant beginning point, given Wagner’s well know anti-Semitic reputation. Fast forward to 2020 and they find themselves collaborating on a recital focused on the music of lesser known Jewish composers work from the time of The Holocaust, The Shoah Songbook. Through this journey, they have become passionate supporters of the music of composers like Victor Ullman and Ilsa Weber, whom they believe belong in our standard canon, and are important composers in the German tradition.
The first installment in The Shoah Songbook is available to watch on demand on Jaclyn’s website (jaclyngrossman.com/), and the second in the series, Kovno/Vilna (hgjewishtheatre.com/2021-2022-ShoahSongbook2.html), will be available online January 27, 2022 for International Holocaust Remembrance Day and is presented by the Harold Green Jewish Theatre. The Shoah Songbook is anticipated to be composed of five installments.
Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:20 About Shoah (catastrophe) Song Book
2:48 The Collaboration Process
4:30 Music during the Holocaust
6:18 Music research
8:30 A Composer's insight
11:00 What does this mean to you?
13:00 Appropriate Performance Practice
15:45 Wagner VS Social Responsibility
20:45 Ownership
22:58 Response to Wagner
23:50 Inclusivity
