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Events:

Wed 7 & Sat 10 March 2007, 7:30pm - Los Angeles, California
Recovered Voices
Recovering a Musical Heritage
The Music Suppressed by the Third Reich

Los Angeles Opera
135 North Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90012

Curated and Conducted by
Music Director JAMES CONLON
with the LOS ANGELES OPERA ORCHESTRA

The diverse selections for the March 2007 concerts include excerpts from Schreker's The Stigmatized, Braunfels' The Birds, Krenek's Johnny Tunes Up, Ullmann's The Emperor of Atlantis, Schulhoff's Flames and Korngold's The Dead City. The concerts will also feature a complete performance of Zemlinsky's A Florentine Tragedy, a one-act opera based on Oscar Wilde's play of the same name.

More information and booking details from LA Opera.

Sun 6 May 2007, 6:30 pm
Witnesses in Wounded Songs
St Paul's Church Clapham, Rectory Grove, London SW4 0DX - Map
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8785 4772

Jacqueline Cole: Piano and Organ

Works to include:
Szymon Laks : Variations on the J S Bach Chorale "Was Gott tut, ist wohlgetan" for Organ — world premiere;
Viktor Ullmann : Piano Sonata no 2, opus 19 — London premiere;
Erwin Schulhoff : Jazz Partita for Piano;
Eugen d'Albert : piano transcription of J S Bach's Passacaglia in C minor BWV 582;
Pavel Haas : Suite for Piano, opus 13.

The event will include a talk, and there will be a retiring collection for St Paul's Church.

Concert Programme (PDF).

Report of the concert by Celia Male.

Wed 22 August 2007, 7:30 pm
Live in the Moment, Live in Eternity
St Paul's Church Clapham, Rectory Grove, London SW4 0DX - Map

Violin - Jennifer Thorn
Piano - Jacqueline Cole

A lecture recital to include works of the composers Erwin Schulhoff, Arvo Part, John Taverner and Viktor Ullmann.

Telephone: +44 (0)20 8785 4772 or +44 (0)20 7662 2128
Email for more information

Sun 14 October 2007, 7:30 pm
We Search for the Forgotten Song of Angels
Golda Cohen Room, New West End Synagogue, St Petersburgh Place, Bayswater, London W2 4LB - Map

Piano - Jacqueline Cole

Erwin Schulhoff : Jazz Partita - Berlin 1922
Pavel Haas : Suite Opus 13 - Brno 1935
Siegmund Schul : Fugue - Prague 1941
Viktor Ullmann : Klaviersonaten No 7 - Terezin 1944
Szymon Laks : Homage a Chopin - Ballade - Paris 1949

Tickets: £10 to include refreshments.
Call the Synagogue Office on 020 7229 2631 to book your place or email nwes@newwestend.org.uk

Thu 1 November 2007, 7:30 pm
Portrait de l'oiseau - qui - n'existe pas
Hinde Street Methodist Church, 19 Thayer Street, London W1U 2QJ - Map
Tel: 020 7935 6179, email: office@wlm.org.uk

Jennifer McGregor - soprano
Jacqueline Cole - piano

This recital celebrates the birthday of Szymon Laks born in Warsaw on the 1st of November 1901.

Erwin Schulhoff - pisne a tance z tesinska - Ostrava 1936
Wojciech Kilar - "vocalise" from Roman Polanski's 1999 film - The Ninth Gate
Szymon Laks - "portrait de l'oiseau - qui-n'existe-pas" - Paris 1952

interval

Szymon Laks - trois poemes chantes - Paris 1960
Aleksander Tansman - cinq melodies - Paris 1927
Alban Berg - sieben fruhe lieder - Vienna 1905-1908

"An engaging personality, polemicist of a universal culture..." - (In Praise of Szymon Laks, Aleksander Tansman, 1984)

Nov-Dec Concert Programme (PDF, 2.7MB).

Tickets: £10 to include refreshments.
For further details contact the Viktor Ullmann Foundation:
Email: viktorullmannfoundation@googlemail.com
Tel: 020 8785 4772, mobile: 07936 268 804

Sun 2 December 2007, 3:00 pm
Rozhinkes mit Mandlen – Raisins and Almonds – Tales of Chassidic Life

CANCELLED

Tue 29 January 2008, 7:30pm
"Co je to za nebe" – "what kind of heaven is this..." Remembering Viktor Ullmann
St. John's Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA - Map
box office: 020 7222 1061 - or book online - tickets £15, £12, £8 .

Piano - Jacqueline Cole

Leos Janacek : "Po zarostlem chodnicku" series 1 - Hukvaldy, 1911
Pavel Haas : Suite Op 13 - Brno 1935
Viktor Ullmann : Klaviersonaten No 1, Op 10 & No 2, Op 19 - Prague 8 April 1936 & 1938/39
Siegmund Schul : Fugue - Prague 19 July 1941

Concert Programme (PDF, 362KB).

This concert is dedicated to Paul Aron Sandfort who died on 29 December 2007 - more ...

Thu 8 May 2008, 7:30pm
Love Poems to God...
St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace
78 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AG. Tel: +44 (0)20 7496 1610.
email: enquiries@stethelburgas.org
website: www.stethelburgas.org.uk

Jacqueline Cole - Piano
Jennifer Thorn - Violin
Torsten Harder - Cello
Raficq Abdulla - Reader

BACH * PART * SCHUBERT * DAUBER * LEDEC * ULLMANN * MESSIAEN

Readings from:
Eckhart * Boehme * The Lenten Triodion * Buber * Bonhoeffer * Rilke * Celan * Hill * Heschel * St John of the Cross * Ullmann

In association with The Friends of St Ethelburga's - tickets by invitation.
Sponsors: Leo Hepner, Penelope Eckersley and St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace.

Concert Leaflet (PDF, 4.35MB).

faith is a source of conflict... and a resource for transforming conflict...

Wed 24 Sep 2008, 1pm
On an Overgrown Path...
Tribute to George Mantle Childe (b.1911)
Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery, Chequer Road, Doncaster DN1 2AE - Map

Lunchtime recital - Jacqueline Cole - piano

Nicolas Medtner (1879-1951) 'Vergessene Weisen' fur Klavier - Nr. 1 - Sonata 'Reminiscenza' Opus 38
Leos Janacek (1854-1928) 'On an Overgrown Path'
Viktor Ullmann (1898-1944) Klaviersonaten No 2 Opus 19

E-mail: museum@doncaster.gov.uk
Telephone: 01302 734293

Wed 7 Oct 2009, 1pm
Kol Nidre... All Vows
In memory of all those people whose names were on the list of the 'transports to the east' in Theresienstadt, October 1944
Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery, Chequer Road, Doncaster DN1 2AE - Map

Lunchtime recital - Jacqueline Cole - piano

Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn 1809-1847
Variations Serieuses Opus 54 (1841)

Viktor Ullmann 1898-1944
Klaviersonaten No 7 (Theresienstadt 1944)

George Mantle Childe b.1911
Suo Gan - lullaby on a Welsh folksong (1949)

For further details contact:
Philip Scowcroft - telephone: + 44(0) 1302 367 540
E-mail: museum@doncaster.gov.uk
Telephone: 01302 734293