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Sheila Hayman, the composer’s great-great-great-great niece writes in The Times about her talented ancestor, and the way his Jewish heritage was used in the 1930s to obliterate his name from Austro-German musical life.
The 2009 HSBC Cheltenham Music Festival features a huge range of Mendelssohn’s glorious music in the bicentenary year of his birth — from Songs without Words for solo piano to the Violin Concerto performed by Vilde Frang, conductor Edward Gardner and the Halle. You can hear a piano trio, a piano quartet, two string quartets (one and two), a string quintet, the string octet, a selection of songs from mezzo Christianne Stotijn and Julius Drake, Hear My Prayer from Gloucester Cathedral Choir and two orchestral overtures (one and two).
Cheltenham’s programme this year focuses on a wide range of music by other composers with Jewish heritage — from ancient sephardic chant to Hollywood film scores and world premieres. Click to find out more about our concerts featuring Mahler (M26, M56, M60), Copland (M16, M56), Bernstein (M39), Bloch (M37), Finzi (M17, M26), Philip Glass and Steve Reich (M9), Michael Zev Gordon (M35, M54) and Alexander Goehr (M43).
Fretwork present a programme of music for viol consort by Italian Jewish emigres, composing for Henry VIII’s court (M40).
And the fantastic John Wilson Orchestra kicks off the 2009 Festival with a programme that features seven decades of the very best music from Hollywood, almost all of it by Jewish composers such as Gershwin, Herrmann, Korngold, Waxman and Steiner.
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