About the program

Words revolves around music commissioned by Judisk Kultur i Sverige from exciting composers Jacob Mühlrad and Benjamin Staern. Their compositions - inspired by Jewish literature and traditional texts - will premier on May 13 and performed again on May 14. Musicians: Hannah Holgersson, soprano; Staffan Scheja, piano; Christian Svarfvar, violin; Hanna Dahlkvist, cello: Magnus Holmander, clarinet.

 

Talks with the composers will be moderated by Camilla Lundberg.

 

Prominent writers will speak about Jewish writers: Sara Danius (Marcel Proust), Ulf Peter Hallberg (Waler Benjamin), Gabriel Itkes -Sznap (Gloria Gervitz), Bengt Jangfeldt (Joseph Brodsky), Ulrika Knutson (Isak Babel); Jan Mark (Oscar Levertin), Daniel Pedersen (Nelly Sachs), Mikael van Reis (Paul Celan), Salomon Schulman (Joseph Roth) Mikael Timm (Bob Dylen).

 

Reading: Therese Brunnander.

Visual art by Charlotte Gyllenhammar: Hang (2011); Night Descend (2014) & She is not here (2009). 

Film: Flaneur III: Benjamin's Shadow (1998, by Torben Skjödt Jensen to Ulf Peter Hallberg's script). 

 

Director: Lizzie Oved Scheja

 

Program

Saturday 13/5  

15:00

Mingel at the restaurant area 

16:00-17:30

Ulrika Knutson- Isak Babel

Salomon Schulman – Joseph Roth

Mikael Timm – Bob Dylan

Intermission

17:30-18:30

Daniel Pedersen – Nelly Sachs

Bengt Jangfeldt – Joseph Brodsky

19:00-20:00

 Jan Mark –  Oscar Levertin (introduction to Benjamin’s piece)

Camilla Lundberg - Talk with the composers

20:00

Concert Premier

Tsurah of Jacob Mühlrad

Salomos Sång of Benjamin Staern

Hannah Holgersson, soprano; Staffan Scheja, piano; Christian Svarfvar, violin; Hanna Dahlkvist, cello; Magnus Holmander, clarinet.

21:00 

After-party Nosh & Chow restaurant, Norrlandsgatan 24  – inträde endast mot uppvisande av biljetten för  "Words"

 

 

Sunday 14/5

14:00-15:30

Sara Danius – Marcel Proust

Film: Flaneur III: Benjamin's Shadow (1998, Torben Skjødt Jensen. Text: Ulf Peter Hallberg).

Ulf Peter Hallberg – Walter Benjamin

Intermission

16:00-17:30

Mikael van Reis – Paul Celan

Charlotte Gyllenhammar Celan as source of inspiration. 

Gabriel Itkes Sznap – Gloria Gervitz

Intermission

18:00

Talk with composers 

18:30

Concert

Tsurah by Jacob Mühlrad

Salomos Sång by Benjamin Staern

19:30

Program ends

 

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