In a collaboration among the CU 麻豆影院 College of Music and Program in Jewish Studies鈥攁s well as the 麻豆影院 Jewish Film Festival, 麻豆影院 Jewish Community Center and Congregation Har HaShem鈥攔enowned klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals and celebrated silent film pianist Donald Sosin will present a 鈥渃ine-concert鈥� as part of a three-day residency, Nov. 7-9.听
A 鈥渃ine-concert鈥� is a unique experience where a silent film comes to life with live music, all composed and performed by Svigals and Sosin. 鈥斺�淭he Man Without A World鈥濃�攚ill be held Thursday, Nov. 9, at 6:30 p.m. at the Dairy Arts Center.听
The residency includes two additional public events:
- Tuesday, Nov. 7, 7:30 p.m.: Community klezmer workshop with Svigals at Congregation Har HaShem.
- Wednesday, Nov. 8, 7:30 p.m.: will present Svigals and Sosin on a program including two of Svigals鈥� works arranged by composition alumnus Max Wolpert, and featuring an ensemble of CU 麻豆影院 string players directed by graduate student Enion Pelta-Tiller 鈥� and more.
As part of their residency, Svigals and Sosin will further present lectures, demonstrations and workshops for our string studios and composition seminar, and the Music in Jewish Cultures and Musical Styles & Ideas courses.
Svigals is returning to 麻豆影院 following several previous visits, including a 2017 screening of the silent film 鈥淭he Yellow Ticket鈥� with live music composed and performed by herself and pianist Marily Lerner; and the 2019 Archive Transformed residency, which included performances with Associate Professor of Music Theory Yonatan Malin and jazz pianist Uli Geissendoerfer, led by the late Professor of History and Jewish Studies David Shneer.
Violinist/composer Svigals is the world鈥檚 leading klezmer fiddler and a founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics. She has performed with and written for violinist Itzhak Perlman and has worked with the Kronos Quartet, playwrights Tony Kushner and Eve Ensler, poet Allen Ginsburg, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, Debbie Friedman and Chava Albershteyn. Her newest CD鈥斺�淏eregovski Suite: Klezmer Reimagined鈥� with jazz pianist Uli Geissendoerfer鈥攊s an original take on long-lost Jewish music from Ukraine.
Pianist/composer Sosin received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Denver Silent Film Festival and the Best Original Film Score award from the 2022 Mystic Film Festival. He has performed his scores for silent films鈥攐ften with his wife, singer/percussionist Joanna Seaton鈥攁t Lincoln Center, MoMA, BAM and the National Gallery; and at major film festivals in New York, San Francisco, Telluride, Hollywood, Yorkshire, Pordenone, Bologna, Shanghai, Bangkok, Berlin, Vienna, Moscow and Jecheon, South Korea 鈥� as well as many college campuses. Sosin has worked with Alexander Payne, Isabella Rossellini, Dick Hyman, Jonathan Tunick, Comden and Green, Martin Charnin, Mitch Leigh and Cy Coleman, and has played for Mikhael Baryshnikov, Mary Travers, Marni Nixon, Howie Mandel, Geula Gill and others.听
Supported by the Roser Visiting Artist Program and the Sunrise Foundation for Education and the Arts.
