The fourth evening of the series Exile and Creativity is dedicated to a musician who, because of the racial laws, like many intellectuals and politicians, was forced to immigrate to the United States. What better way to honor him than performing his music.
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (3 April 1895 – 16 March 1968) was an Italian composer, pianist and writer. He was known as one of the foremost guitar composers of the twentieth century, and for this instrument he composed close to one hundred compositions. In 1939, following the promulgation of the racial laws in Italy, he immigrated to the United States, where he remained until his death in 1968. The Divan of Moses ibn Ezra is one of his last compositions, and puts into music a series of poems on the exile by the great Spanish Hebrew poet who lived between the XI and the XII century.
Concert:
Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco, The Divan of Moses ibn Ezra
Presentation by: Tina Frühauf
Luigi Attademo, guitar
Tookah Sapper, soprano
Luigi Attademo, a pupil of the acclaimed guitarist-composer Angelo Gilardino, has won awards in national and international competitions, including the “Concours International d’Exécution Musicale (CIEM)” in Geneva (1995). His teachers include Julius Kalmar (conducting), composers as Giovanni Guanti, Dusan Bogdanovic and Alessandro Solbiati, and the harpsichord player Emilia Fadini (Baroque music). He has published a book about musical interpretation, and is a contributor to several specialized magazines. While working in the Archive of the Andrés Segovia’s Foundation (Linares, Spain) cataloguing manuscripts, he discovered some previously overviewed ones by important composers such as Jaume Pahissa, Alexandre Tansman, Gaspar Cassadò and others. He has recorded several CDs dedicated to Baroque music and to the Segovia’s Repertoire. He teaches at ISSM Gaetano Donizetti in Bergamo (Italy), and he is often invited as a guest at the Geneva and Lausanne Conservatories. From 2010 he has given invited lecture/recitals at Royal Academy of Music of London.
Tookah Sapper, Cherokee soprano from Oklahoma City, holds a Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Manhattan School of Music. She performs and collaborates with American Opera Projects, based in Brooklyn, NY, as a member of their Resident Ensemble for the 2017/18 season of “Composers & the Voice”, under the direction of Steven Osgood. She is also a member of the Princeton Singers, under the direction of Steven Sametz, for their 2017/18 season. She is currently based in Princeton, New Jersey. She is a Cantor at St. John the Evangelist in Lambertville, and accompanies ballet classes at the Princeton Ballet School.
Tina Frühauf teaches at Columbia University and serves on the doctoral faculty of The Graduate Center, CUNY. She is Associate Executive Editor at Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale in New York. An active scholar and writer, her research is centered on music and Jewish studies, especially in religious contexts but also art music, historiography, and Jewish community, often crossing the methodological boundaries between ethnomusicology and historical musicology. She is the author of The Organ and Its Music in German-Jewish Culture (Oxford University Press, 2009/2012) and editor of An Anthology of German-Jewish Organ Music (A-R Editions, 2013), Hans Samuel: Selected Piano Works (A-R Editions, 2013), and Dislocated Memories: Jews , Music, and Postwar German Culture (Oxford University Press, 2014), which won the Ruth A. Solie Award and the Jewish Studies and Music Award of the American Musicological Society. She has written several books for a general readership. The most recent one, Experiencing Jewish Music in America, with Rowman & Littlefield, has just gone to print. Dr. Frühauf is currently completing a monograph on music in the Jewish communities of Germany after 1945. An edited volume titled Postmodernity’s Musical Pasts: Historicity and Temporality after 1945 is under review.
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