'One Little Goat': new discoveries in Jewish choral music

Soprano solo: Mimi Sheffer
Mezzo-soprano: Beth Mackay
Baritone solo: Robert Webb

As part of the international conference 'Magnified and Sanctified: The Music of Jewish Worship', hosted by the School of Music at the University of Leeds, The Clothworkers Consort of Leeds performs a public concert of Jewish choral music, including works recently discovered as part of the AHRC-funded research project 'Performing the Jewish Archive'.

Mimi Sheffer

The concert will feature the first performances for nearly 100 years of music by composers who were killed in the Holocaust, and those who escaped Eastern Europe and emigrated to South Africa, Australia and elsewhere. The programme includes the Passover cantata Chad Gadya ['One little goat'] by Dowid Ajzensztadt, and works for the Jewish Shabbat liturgy by Dawid Nowakowsky and Froim Spektor, alongside newer compositions by Ian Sapiro, Kurt Weill, Aaron Copland, and others.

Provisional programme

• Froim Spektor, V'shomru [The children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath]
• Dowid Ajzensztadt, Chad Gadya [One little goat]
• Dawid Nowakowsky, V'shomru
• Ian Sapiro, Chatzi Kaddish [Half Kaddish]
• Karoly Fraknoi, Kinah [Elegy]
• Salomone Rossi, Motet for double choir Adon Olam [Master of the Universe]
• Dowid Ajzensztadt, Sh'chuloh achuloh [Wasted and desolate]
• Kurt Weill, Kiddush [Sanctification of the Sabbath]
• Aaron Copland, In the beginning
• arr. Rubinstein, Ki Malochov

Tickets

• Full price: £10
• Concessions £8

Beth Mackay