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ARC has become one of Canada’s leading cultural exports, raising international awareness of the Glenn Gould School’s superb faculty and Canada’s rich musical life. The ensemble’s concerts are meticulously researched and assembled with rich supporting materials and are often augmented with lectures on the life and context of the composers. The ensemble plays a leading role in unearthing repertoire that has been ignored due to political changes or shifts in musical fashion - in particularly works that were lost because of the upheavals of the Second World War. Presented by Chutzpah! and the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad with Congregation Beth Israel, Music in Exile, will explore the extraordinary music of Jewish composers forced to flee the Third Reich after the Nazis cracked down on their “degenerate” music. These once-forgotten works will be given their due in two moving music concerts by the ARC Ensemble. The first concert on March 19 is entitled Continental Britons and will feature the works of the composers Robert Kahn (voice and piano trio), Mátyás Seiber (clarinet and string quartet), and Franz Reizenstein (piano quintet). The concert on March 20 entitled Exiled to the New World will feature the World Premiere of a quintet for clarinet and strings by Hans Weisse, the Canadian premiere of a Felix Mendelssohn violin sonata as well as the works of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (piano trio), Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (baritone and guitar) and Hanns Eisler (baritone and guitar). Music in Exile has been presented to huge critical success in New York, London, Budapest, and Toronto, and has led to concerts at the Kennedy Center in Washington and performances in Rome, Sweden and Poland. ARC’s two CDs, On the Threshold of Hope and Right Through the Bone, have been nominated for Grammy Awards in the category of Best Chamber Music Recording. “The ARC musicians performed both scores with passion, polish and vitality.” New York Times "Through their remarkable dedication to the music of these composers, along with the scholarship, discussion and historical context provided by this [Music in Exile] series, the stories of these composers are brilliantly illuminated. With their committed, outstanding performances, in North America and all over the world, this organization gives active meaning to the concept of tikkun olam, repairing the world; work that can never be fully completed." James Conlon, Honorary Chairman, ARC Ensemble Principal Artists Peter Barrett (Baritone) When: March 19 at 2pm, March 20 at 9pm A Chutzpah! presentation with the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad and Congregation Beth Israel
Visit the Festival’s website at www.chutzpahfestival.com for complete information. Tickets can be purchased by phone at the Chutzpah! Festival Box Office (604-257-5145), online at www.ticketstonight.ca and the Chutzpah! Festival website www.chutzpahfestival.com or in person at the JCCGV (950 W. 41st Ave). Online Tickets for The Idan Raichel Project can be purchased only through Ticketmaster (604.280.3311) www.ticketmaster.ca as well as by phone or in person through the Chutzpah! Festival Box Office (604-257-5145).
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