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Composer, Conductor, Music Educator, & Yiddishist

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Today I made a pilgrimage that I’ve wanted to make for most of my life. I traveled to Leipzig to visit my hero and attended the opening of the Bach Festival. I sat in the pews of the Thomaskirche, steps away from where he is buried inside the church, and heard his Magnificat fill the hall it premiered in. To say I was overwhelmed is a dramatic understatement. I then ran down the street right after to the Gewandhaus and heard Andreas Schiff play all of the Partitas, with an encore of the Italian Concerto.

Good day.

(Yes, I left the flowers)

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Partita for Solo Viola @derekdavidcomposer, featured on Transitions by @jessemorrisonviola receiving rave reviews. DM by June 30th for a complementary PDF score!

#viola #soloviola #bach #jsbach

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Meet the incredible Derek David, Boston-based composer, conductor, and music educator specializing in Yiddish! Derek David is the director of A Besere Velt, the largest Yiddish chorus in the world, and we are so excited to welcome him to Berlin.
🎤 Want to try your shot at Yiddish choral singing? Join Derek David’s “Singing for a besere velt” workshop at our festival weekend’s workshop and lecture series at ufaFabrik, June 13-14th.

🎶 Visit our website (link in bio) for tickets and more information!

#yiddish #choir #yiddishsong #jewishculture #berlinevents

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Today’s the day! Can’t wait for our show with A Besere Velt Chorus in Boston at @artsatthearmory ! Still a few tickets left at the door…

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@golden_thread_ensemble is so excited to join forces with the Besere Velt Chorus for a very special concert this Sunday, May 10 at 2pm at Arts at the Armory in Somerville, Boston. The concert is a fundraiser for @bostonworkerscircle so bring your mama and celebrate the beginning of May with a program of Yiddish songs of social change while supporting a good cause! Thanks to @bostonjewishmusic and @lehrhaustavern @jamiesicecream and @brooklinebooksmith for helping make the event possible! #klezmer #livemusic #yiddish #folkmusic #boston

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“Yet another fabulous concert last night [April 18]: WHO WE ARE, WHO WE NEED TO BE, the musicians of the New Gallery Concert Series playing works of Derek David, Julie Arlene Spencer, John Corigliano, and Bruno C. Faria. There was an art tie-in, with paintings by Brooke Merrill echoed by Bruno Faria’s triptych for piano and tape — during which we were given brush pens and told to illustrate our own responses. Last photo in this post is mine, which for some reason should be read from right to left...
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Sarah Bob has run this series now for 25 years, and for 25 years it has been introducing audiences to new music and new art. As a young man half a lifetime ago, I attended their shows in Boston and these were some of the first places I heard avant garde contemporary works live. At the time, I didn’t know Sarah, but I already loved what she was doing.

The audience last night was ecstatic and we all milled around afterwards jabbering to each other about favorite pieces, how wonderfully all the musicians had done with some really virtuosic scores, etc. There was a general sense of jubilation that is not what you expect when you go to a new music concert — and part of it is the way Sarah and her musicians welcome the audience into their music-making.

In general, one of the great things about working down here in Boston this month is seeing how there’s a kind of desperate adoration going on right now between audiences and classical musicians, a thirst for music and community. I feel lucky to witness it.”

@_mtanderson

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And....That's A Wrap!

We loved performing and recording Oh World, Good Night amidst listening to favorite baroque albums, rice Koji spirit, cooking japchae, impromptu Mozart arias sing-alongs with @derekdavidcomposer and @nick.davies16

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#clarinet #chamber #music #yiddish #bassclarinet

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Clarinet Quintet "Oh World, Goodnight "by Derek David performed by the Del Sol Quartet with Nick Davies, Clarinet #livefromchatterabq #chattersunday

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“Best concert I have ever been to.”
“...you could feel the joy everywhere...”
“...most engaged and inspired I have felt at any recent concert experience...”
“..wildly eclectic and still cohesive!”
“...stunning...moving...”
“This was my first NewGal event and I will definitely be back. Where have I been for 26 seasons?”

An over the top BRAVO to last night’s WHO WE ARE, WHO WE NEED TO BE NewGal participants. You are treasures.

More images and thoughts coming soon.

photo credit: Michelle Davidson-Schapiro

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