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http://www.musicincincinnati.com/site/reviews/A_Day_to_Remember_at_HUC_printer.html
From Music in Cincinnati
A Day to Remember at HUC
Posted in: Reviews
By Mary Ellyn Hutton
Jan 18, 2011 - 10:38:08 AM
Jan 18, 2011 - 10:38:08 AM
 The Constella Trio. Left ro right: violinist Tatiana Berman, cellist Ilya Fnkelshteyn and violist Yael Senamaud |
There was a birthday January 16 in Scheuer Chapel at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Clifton. Also a debut and a world premiere.
The birthday belonged to Bonia Shur, 88, Director of Liturgical Arts (emeritus) at HUC. The debut was by the Constella Trio, violinist Tatiana Berman, violist Yael Senamaud and cellist Ilya Finkelshteyn. The world premiere was Shur’s “Kol Nidre” for solo viola performed by Senamaud.
The chapel was full to overflowing for the late afternoon concert, and extra chairs had to be moved in to accommodate the crowd. All of which augured well for what was also the inauguration of a new concert series at Scheuer Chapel. It is a welcoming space, with well-balanced acoustics that have served chamber music well in the past. One looks forward to upcoming events.
 Bonia Shur |
Nothing could have been more fitting to open the concert than a work by Shur, a versatile and distinguished composer with a world of music to his credit, not only liturgical, but scores for film, television, theater and dance. (Among other things, Shur collaborated with Johnny Mandel on the score for the hit 1966 film “The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming.”)
Born in Latvia, Shur escaped the Nazi invasion, fought in the Russian army in World War II and lived in a kibbutz in Israel before immigrating to the U.S. in 1960. He settled in Cincinnati when he took up his post at HUC in 1974. He and his wife and collaborator, choreographer Fanchon Schur, were warmly greeted by the Scheuer Chapel crowd.
Senamaud did the honors with Schur’s “Kol Nidre,” a setting of the traditional Jewish prayer for Yom Kippur. It is a searching, soulful work from the playbook of Johann Sebastian Bach, with daunting multiple stops for the viola, some in high positions on the instrument. The room was hushed as Senamaud applied her plush tone to its keening lines, earning a warm ovation from the crowd and a kiss on the hand from Shur.
There was an interpolation on the program occasioned by the Cincinnati Pops matinee concert downtown at Music Hall, which delayed Finkelshteyn’s arrival at Scheuer (he is principal cellist of the Cincinnati Symphony and Pops Orchestras). No problem. Berman and Senamaud filled in with the Duo for Violin and Viola in G Major by Mozart – and very handily, too, for an on-the-spot command performance. Their blend was delicious, Berman playing on a 1770 Joannes Gagliano violin on loan from Jules Azzi. There was plenty of energy and propulsion in the outer movements and a lovely, arioso-like slow movement.
“There’s a cellist in the house,” announced host Jonathan Cohen, Director of The Ethics Center and Outreach Education at HUC, introducing Finkelshteyn, who joined Berman and Senamaud in a supple reading of Schubert’s one-movement Trio in B-flat Major, D.471. They followed with Beethoven’s Trio Op. 9, No. 2 in D Major. Beethoven’s four-movement, thorough-going work showed the Constella Trio to be a hndsome addition to the local chamber music scene, where string trios are less represented than string quartets and ensembles with piano. Finkelshteyn’s svelte tone complemented the higher voices beautifully, and there was a real sense of camaraderie within the group. Everyone sang in the slow movement and joined forces in the verve and merriment of the Rondo Allegro finale.
Highlight of the program was Czech composer Gideon Klein’s String Trio, written in 1944, when Klein was in charge of musical activities at Terezin concentration camp. It is an amazing work, a beacon amid the darkness, penned just two weeks before he was deported for Auschwitz at the age of 26.
A cheerful opening movement, capped by a spreading cello chord gave way to a set of variations on a Moravian tune, the heart of the work and its longest movement. Lest anyone get too introspective, however, the trio closes with a short, sassy finale, a rustic dance announced with stamina by Berman.
For reasons of time, the Trio closed with the final movement of Erno Dohnanyi’s Serenade, Op. 10, rather than the complete work. It is upbeat music -- literally upbeat, at the beginning, where scampering sixteenth notes follow a declamatory chord. It was fun to follow along and in particular, to hear Finkelshteyn set up Berman’s restatement of the gutsy Hungarian theme high on her violin’s lowest string.
The concert was preceded by a tribute to Shur, including a slide show, presentation of HUC’s Lifetime Achievement Award by Dean Ken Ehrlich and a proclamation from the faculty by faculty chair Richard Sarason.
Wednesday, 22 December 2010
CONSTELLA TRIO
CONSTELLA TRIO
Tatiana Berman
Ilya Finkelshteyn
Yael Senamaud
January 16, 2011 @ 4.30pm
Schueur Chapel, Hebrew Union College
3101 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati OH 45220
513 402 2482
January 18, 2011 @ 7pm
104 Center for Performing Arts, Oxford, OH 45056
Souers Recital Hall, Oxford Campus, Miami University
Program
Bonia Shur – Kol Nidre (HUC concert)
Franz Schubert – Unfinished Trio in B flat major, D.471Ludwig von Beethoven – String Trio in D major, Opus 9, No. 2
Gideon Klein – Trio (Terezin 1944)
Erno Von Dohnanyi – Serenade Opus 10
Thursday, 2 December 2010
Friday, 15 October 2010
Tatiana Berman - violin
Yael Senamaud-Cohen - viola
November 7, Sunday @ 3 pm
Northern Hills Fellowship
460 Fleming Road, Cincinnati, OH 45231
A. Joan Wolking
Concert Series 2010/11, the 12th Season
The program:
Bach: Allemanda, Double from Partita no.1 for violin solo in b minor BWV 1002
Bach: Prelude, Allemande, Courante from the Cello Suite no. 6 in D major BWV 1012
Mozart: Duo in G, K 423
Chailly: Improvisation for two
William Ryden: Three Rags for Violin and Viola
Handel-Halvorsen: Passacaglia
November 2 & 3, 2010 7pm
The Great Hall at the Cincinnati Art Museum
CONCERT:NOVA - TWO PART INVENTION
A festival of the Baroque
This two-night festival of the Baroque will showcase some of the most tantalizing works from the period 1600-1750, a time of dramatic expression and vigorous, highly ornamented art. The music of Bach, Telemann, Rameau, Albinoni, Handel and others will come together to transport you to the world of the rococo. What was a typical concert of the time like? What was happening in the world outside? It was a period of scientific discovery and reasoning, a time of exploration and settlement of new lands. What was the literature, architecture, philosophy and tone of the time?
Program // Part One: Program // Part Two:
Experience the brilliance of c:n soloists Randolph Bowman on flute, Dwight Parry on oboe, Mauricio Aguiar, Tatiana Berman, Gabriel Pegis and Anna Reider on violin along with guest harpsichordist Vivian Montgomery and trumpeters Robert Sullivan and Douglas Lindsay. Tickets: Call 513-721-ARTS for reservations or click to purchase |
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