In 2023-24, the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience examines a little-known but seminal artistic movement that profoundly influenced the development of Jewish art music in the 20th century, the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music (1908-1917). Milken Center artistic director and UCLA director of orchestral studies Neal Stulberg has curated the series and introduces these rarely-performed works on each program.
This concert focuses on pairs of contrasting piano and chamber works by Society composers:
Alexander Krein Poème, Op. 10 for cello and piano (1907-1910)
Alexander Krein Aria, Op. 41 for violin and piano (1927)
Alexander Veprik Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 3 (1922)
Alexander Veprik Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 5 (1924)
Mikhail Gnessin “Requiem” for Piano Quintet, Op. 11 (1914)
Mikhail Gnessin Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano (“Requiem for our Lost Children”), Op. 63 (1943)
Adam Millstein, violin
Tiffany Wee, violin (UCLA BM ’19)
Connie Song, viola (UCLA BM ’19)
Christopher Cho, cello (UCLA MM ’21)
Brandon Zhou, piano (UCLA BM ’21; MM ’23)
Neal Stulberg, piano
Links with background about the music:
This event is made possible by the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.