Humanities and of Music, and Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of
Chicago.
On SUNDAY, APRIL 15, Holocaust Rememberance Day, Professor Bohlman,
accompanied by Christine Bohlman, will present a musical program dedicated
to the memory of Viktor Ullman, highlighting his last musical composition
performed at the concentration camp Terezin. This event, which will last
approximately sixty minutes, is scheduled for 2:30 PM in the Auditorium of
the Frick Fine Arts Building across the street from the Carnegie Music Hall
thereby giving all those who attend the opportunity to join the community
for its annual Holocaust Day commemoration scheduled for 4:00 PM.
On MONDAY, APRIL 16, Professor Bohlman will offer an interpretive lecture
on the history of Jewish music under the title "Jewish Music in the Age of
Revival." The talk will highlight the work of the musicologist A. Z.
Idelsohn and his 1911-1913 recordings in Jerusalem which served to map the
contours of the Jewish Diaspora.
This talk will be presented in the Music building located a the corner of
Fifth Avenue and Bellefield Street. Please call 412 624-2279 for the time
and room assignment.
About the presenter:
Philip V. Bohlman is the Mary Werkman Professor of the Humanities and of Music, and Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago. His teaching and courses cover a broad range, with special interests in music and modernity, folk and popular music in North America and Europe, Jewish music, music of the Middle East and South Asia, music and religion, and music at the encounter with racism and colonialism. A pianist, he is also the Artistic Director of the "New Budapest Orpheum Society," a Jewish cabaret ensemble at Chicago. Philip Bohlman was awarded the Edward Dent Medal by the Royal Music Association in 1997 and the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin in 2003.
