Concert: "From Jewish Life: Music of Ernest Bloch" (Online)
Venue: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts
Date: Saturday, May 1, 2021
Time: 7:30 - 8:30 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost: Free

Description:
Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts presents the concert "From Jewish Life: Music of Ernest Bloch" online with clarinet player Yevgeny Dokshansky and pianist Richard Masters on Saturday, May 1, 2021.

Virginia Tech music professors Yevgeny Dokshansky and Richard Masters present a recital of clarinet and piano music by the Swiss-born American Jewish composer Ernest Bloch (1880-1959).

Ernest Bloch composed many works for string instruments, but did not compose any solo music for the clarinet. Prof. Dokshansky has thus transcribed a number of Bloch’s string pieces for the clarinet: Suite Hebraique (originally for viola); Meditation and Processional (originally for viola); From Jewish Life (originally for cello); and Suite (originally for viola).

Bloch’s compositional style was heavily influenced by the type of music he heard as a child during religious services in the Beth Yaakov Synagogue in Geneva. These new transcriptions expand the clarinet and piano repertoire, and also give clarinetists access to the uniquely Jewish soundworld of Ernest Bloch.

Admission is free and all are welcome.

All livestreams will be on the School of Performing Arts YouTube channel which is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H973hWIT4CE.

For more information, visit: https://www.performingarts.vt.edu/performances/2021/05/sopa-dokshanskymasters.html or https://www.facebook.com/VTperformingarts.

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