CHAMBER MUSIC FROM THE MILKEN CENTER
In 2024-25, the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience presents four concerts of uplifting and distinctive chamber music.
4 PM Sunday, February 16, 2025 — COMPOSER PORTRAIT: THE MUSIC OF STANLEY WALDEN (Palm Springs)
From Neal Stulberg:
The Milken Center follows its May 2024 residency with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Yehudi Wyner (b. 1929) with Spring 2025 concerts in Palm Springs and Ventura surveying the chamber music of another 90-something wunderkind, Stanley Walden.
Venues for Palm Springs and Ventura to be announced
About Stanley Walden
Born December 2, 1932, an American composer, musical performer, and professor of musical theater. He has written music for the theater (musicals, operas, ballets) in America and Europe, as well as for the concert stage (Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland and Louisville Orchestras; and chamber music for Carole Cowan, Jan DeGaetani, Reri Grist, Gilbert Kalish, Joel Krosnick, Robert Levin and many others). He has also been a clarinetist, actor and director. He is perhaps best known for writing music and lyrics of the revue Oh! Calcutta!
___________________________________________________________
2024-2025 Milken Center Chamber Music Series
4 PM Sunday, January 12, 2025 — COMPOSER PORTRAIT: THE MUSIC OF PAUL SCHOENFiELD
From Milken Center Artistic Director Neal Stulberg:
Paul Schoenfield (1947-2024) was a unique and brilliant musician of decidedly American Jewish Experience. A virtuoso concert pianist and hugely gifted composer who wrote for first-class performers and ensembles, Paul was a devoutly orthodox Jew and a remarkable person. Retiring as professor of composition at the University of Michigan in 2021, he split his time between the U.S. and Israel. His music — a fascinating mashup of klezmer/Hasidic, liturgical, jazz, bluegrass, blues and Americana — is well represented in the Milken Archive. Paul and I both grew up in Detroit, and I intersected with him professionally through the years. One chamber concert is hardly enough to do justice to his range and brilliance, but we’re going to try.
Program
Four Motets for eight-voice chorus from Psalm 86 (1995)
Tales from Chelm for string quartet (1991)
Carolina Réveille for violin, viola, cello, piano (1996)
Camp Songs for mezzo-soprano, baritone, violin, cello, double bass, clarinet and piano (2001)
* * * *
1 PM Sunday, February 4, 2025 —ISRAELI ART SONG: BETWEEN FANTASIES AND REALITIES
A concert/lecture exploring the beauties and complexities of Israeli art song, featuring Israeli-born mezzo-soprano and UCLA lecturer, Iris Malkin, and Israeli pianist and past dean of the Jerusalem Academy for Music and Dance, Ido Ariel. Featured composers include Moses Milner, Paul Ben-Haim, Zvi Avni, Aharon Harlap, Ofer Ben-Amots and Menachem Weissenberg. Sunday Music and a Schmear, enjoy complimenary coffee, bagels and sweets.
Iris Malkin, mezzo-soprano
Ido Ariel, piano
Lani Hall, UCLA