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Celebrating Stefan Wolpe
Composer Stefan Wolpe’s involvement in radical socialist causes informed his earliest works, including music for Communist rallies and chamber operas that satirized contemporary politics and bourgeois attitudes. Though Wolpe was a contemporary of famed German composer and songwriter Kurt Weill, he did not gain widespread recognition until he fled Nazi Germany for Palestine. This weekend, the Stefan Wolpe Society begins its 100th anniversary celebration of the composer’s birth. Joining us for an exploration of Wolpe and his work will be cellist Fred Sherry, pianist David Holzman, and composer and Wolpe scholar Martin Brody.
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A classical-music man about town, Fred Sherry has been an active performer
with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center for almost three decades.
More about Fred Sherry: http://www.stokar.com/fred_sherry.htm
David Holzman mostly performs 20th century keyboard masterworks. He has premiered
and made first recordings of hundreds of works by living composers around the
world.
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The son of a jazz musician, Martin Brody has grounded some of his work of the
last decade in pop culture, including a 1992 chamber opera that presents an
early 20th-century Russian tale in operatic and rap styles. He has also written
music for PBS and composed the score for John Sayles’ 1980 film, The Brother
From Another Planet.
More about Martin Brody
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