University Libraries UNCG and
the UNCG College of Visual and Performing Arts
is collaborating to make December 2016 a spectacular month for music fans. As
many of you may know, the Martha
Blakeney Hodges Special Collections & University Archives at #UNCG is
home to the largest single holding of cello music-related materials in the
world, and every few years, we celebrate one of the musicians represented in
our collection. This year’s campus theme is "War & Peace Imagined,"
an exploration of war and peace through the arts and humanities. Therefore, it
is most fitting that we celebrate the musical legacy of cellist, Lev
Aronson.
Lev Aronson is remembered as a distinguished cellist, teacher, and
survivor of the Holocaust. With his family forced from their home in Latvia
during World War I and losing five years of his life to the camps of World War
II, Aronson endured one of the darkest times in human history, surviving these
events to bring beauty to the world through music. Among Aronson’s many
students is internationally acclaimed cellist, Lynn Harrell.
We are sponsoring a concert (Dec. 2, 2016) and recital (Dec. 3, 2016) featuring
Lynn Harrell. The information is available below and tickets are on sale now:
Ernest Bloch Hebraic Rhapsody for Solo Cello and Orchestra
When: Friday, December 2, 2016, 7:30 pm
Where: UNCG Auditorium
Tickets: $10 adult/ $5 student: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?pid=8319485
The UNCG Symphony Orchestra will accompany the world-renowned cellist
as he performs Ernest Bloch's passionate and exotic work, Schelomo: Rhapsody
for Solo Cello and Orchestra. Crafted in faith and misery, Schelomo premiered
100 years ago as part of Bloch's Jewish Cycle. This will be one piece in a
larger concert from the UNCG Symphony.
UPAS: Lynn Harrell, recital
When: Saturday, December 3, 2016, 8:00 pm
Where: Recital Hall
Tickets: $30 adult/$25 student/ $25 senior
Lynn Harrell will complete his UNCG residency with this
recital of virtuosic works including those of Lev Aronson, Mr. Harrell's cello
teacher. Lev Aronson, himself a cellist and composer, was interned in both a
Nazi Concentration Camp and a Russian Labor Camp. He eventually made it to the
United States where he became the Principal Cellist of the Dallas Symphony
Orchestra and a beloved teacher of many successful cellists.
Program:
Sonata in G major (edited by Lev Aronson), Henry Eccles
Cello Sonata in C major, op. 119, Sergei Prokofiev
Cello Sonata, Claude Debussy
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Introduction, Theme and Variations, op. 82, no. 2 (arr.
Gregor Piatigorsky), Franz Schubert
Cello Suite no. 3 in C major, BWV 1009, J.S. Bach
