Dear AmiciMusic friends,
Below are some of our recent live concerts performed in Baltimore, Asheville, and New Hampshire (with my other organization, Classicopia) as well as some of the LIVESTREAM concerts we made during the Coronavirus pandemic. I hope you enjoy these shows. To find out what is coming up in your area, click on the CONCERTS link above.
A fun program exploring connections between Jewish “Klezmer” music and early American Jazz. Seth Kibel, clarinet and Daniel Weiser, piano. Performed at Dr. Weiser’s home on July 29, 2023.
Part One features works of Michele Magnani, Scott Joplin, Lev Kogan, Benny Goodman, and Bela Kovacs.
Part Two features works of Magnani, Simon Sargon, Goodman, Jerry Bock, and Artie Shaw
Two powerful piano trios performed by Taya Ricker, violin; Franklin Keel, cello; and Daniel Weiser, piano.
Works by Claude Debussy–Trio in G Major and Felix Mendelssohn–Trio in C Minor
Recorded live at the St. Giles Chapel at Deerfield in Asheville NC on July 16, 2023
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Another wonderful program featuring works for oboe, bassoon, and piano by Milde, Beethoven, Bush, Dring, and Carr.
Performers: Margaret Herlehy, oboe; Janet Polk, bassoon; Daniel Weiser, piano.
Performed by Classicopia and AmiciMusic in June, 2023. Performance recorded at First Congregational Church in Lebanon, NH.
For more about Classicopia, visit www.classicopia.org
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Presented by Classicopia and AmiciMusic in May, 2023 featuring Emmanuel Borowsky, violin; Cecylia Barczyk, cello; and Daniel Weiser, piano
Works by Amy Beach, Undine Smith Moore, Heleen Verleur, and Dora Pejacevic
For more about Classicopia, visit www.classicopia.org
A Livestream performance featuring great arrangements of Broadway songs by Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, and George Gershwin, all of whom were Jewish. Originally aired as a Livestream for the “Music and Meaning” series at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation on January 9, 2022. Program includes “Rhapsody in Blue” plus songs such as “Cheek to Cheek,” “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” “Stormy Weather,” “S’Wonderful” and more.
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Concert featuring the Claude Bolling Suite as well as West Side Story and Gershwin songs.
Performers: Timothy Schwarz (violin), Craig Sandberg (bass), Justin Watt (percussion), & Daniel Weiser (piano). Performed live at the First Presbyterian Church in Asheville, NC in 2019.
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Concert featuring fun works for two flutes by Debussy, Donizetti, and Doppler as well as sultry tangos by Piazzolla, a Mexican Fantasy by Zyman and three Dances by Schocker.
Performers: Flutists Lea Kibler and Deborah Heller and pianist Daniel Weiser. Live at St. Giles Chapel at Deerfield in Asheville, NC on July 28, 2019
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Concert featuring beautiful Spirituals and rhythmic Ragtime to celebrate African-American History month.
Performers: Simone Vigilante, soprano and Daniel Weiser, piano
Performed live at the First Presbyterian Church in Asheville on Feb. 23, 2020
Presented as a Livestream Concert on November 14, 2021 for the opening concert on the Har Sinai/Oheb Shalom Gordon Fund Concert Series. Features Lachezar Kostov, cello and Daniel Weiser, piano/Artistic Director
Erich Korngold: “Gluckwunsch” from Five Songs, Op. 38, no. 1
Felix Mendelssohn: Cello Sonata, Op. 58 in D Major
Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85 (3rd & 4th mvts)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Ballade for Violin in A Minor, Op. 73
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A program of fantastic four-hand piano arrangments of holiday classics plus a virtuoso version of the Nutcracker Suite and Blue Danube Waltz
Performers: Alex Watson and Daniel Weiser, piano
Performed at the home of Sally Sparks and Lora Tannenholz on December 14, 2019
Great Trios for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano
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A program of great trios for this unusual combination, including works by Lalliet, Bizet, Grandval, and Poulenc
Performers: Margaret Herlehy, oboe; Janet Polk, bassoon: and Daniel Weiser, piano
Performed at the First Presbyterian Church in Asheville on June 9, 2019
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A program featuring the first published works of Felix Mendelssohn (age 14) and Josef Suk (age 17) as well as a movement from a quartet by Dvorak, Suk’s mentor and father-in-law.
Performers: Emmanuel Borowsky, violin; Anna Pelczer; Frances Borowsky, cello; Daniel Weiser, piano
Performed at the home of Daniel Angerstein and Jerry Schultz in Hendersonville, NC on January 13, 2019
Presented as a Livestream concert on September 11, 2021 for the “Music and Meaning” Series at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation. Features Emmanuel Borowsky, violin; Frances Borowsky, cello; and Daniel Weiser, piano/Artistic Director
Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings
Bedrich Smetana: Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 15 (1st & 3rd mvts)
Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Trio in E Minor, Op. 67
Presented as a Livestream concert on August 6, 2021 for the “Music and Meaning” Series at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation. Features Daniel Lau and Daneil Weiser, pianists.
Ferrucio Busoni: Duettino Concertante—Variations on Mozart’s Piano Concerto, K. 459
Camille Saint-Saens: Variations on a Theme by Beethoven, Op. 35
Robert Schumann: Andante and Variations in B Flat, Op. 46
Johannes Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56
Presented as a Livestream concert on January 17, 2021 from the Weiser living room in Baltimore, MD. Features Tim Schwarz, violin and Daniel Weiser, piano/Artistic Director
Gershwin: Embraceable You , The Man I Love, I Got Rhythm; Arlen: Over the Rainbow, arr. James Colman; Rodgers: If I Loved You, Some Enchanted Evening, Sound of Music, Climb Every Mountain; Bernstein: West Side Story, arr. Lawrence Livolsi; Bock: Fiddler on the Roof , Sunrise, Sunset, If I Were a Rich Man; Leigh: The Impossible Dream; Sondheim: Send in the Clowns; Hamlisch: What I Did for Love; Webber: Memory; Schonberg: Bring Him Home; Webber: All I Ask of You
Presented as a Livestream concert on January 3, 2021 from the Weiser living room in Baltimore, MD. Features Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser, pianists. Plus a special guest appearance by Emma and Sophie Weiser (15 year old twins)
PROGRAM: Sleigh Ride by Leroy Anderson, arr. by Michael Edwards; White Christmas by Irving Berlin, arr. by Amy Snyder; Hark, the Herald Angels Sing by Felix Mendelssohn, arr. by Victor Labenske; Go, Tell it on the Mountain–Spiritual arr. by Victor Labenske ; Jingle Bells by James Lord Pierpont arr. by Robert Vandall The Nutcracker Suite by Peter Tchaikovsky, arr. by Nicolas Economou; “Show Yourself” from Frozen II by Robert and Kristen Lopez; Seven Christmas Carols arr. by Simon Peberdy (http://simonpeberdymusic.com/)–Deck the Halls and Boogie; God Rest You Merry Gentlemen; King Wenceslas Rumba; Three Kings Blues; Ding Dong Glory Christmas Rag; The First Noel Gymnopedie; Joy to the World–Funky
Presented live at St. Peter’s Church on Skidaway Island, GA on October 18, 2020. Features Lea Kibler, flute, and Daniel Weiser, piano/Artistic Director.
PROGRAM: Johann Sebastian Bach—Sonata in E Flat Major, BMV 1031; Alfred Schnittke—Suite in the Old Style; Astor Piazzolla—Fuga y misterio; Taras Yachshenko—-Adieu Tango & Petite Valse; Samuel Zyman—Cancion de Cuna; Claude Bolling—“Baroque and Blue” from 1st Suite for Flute and Jazz Trio & “Vagabonde” from 2nd Suite for Flute and Jazz Trio
Presented live from the White Horse in Black Mountain on November 12, 2020. Features Franklin Keel, cello and Daniel Weiser, piano/Artistic Director. Video produced by RadHaus Studios. Click on the screen and then click link on next screen when it says: “Watch on YouTube”. You will be able to see the video there.
PROGRAM: Cello Sonata no. 1 in F Major, Op. 5, no. 1; Cello Sonata no. 2 in G Minor, Op. 5, no. 2
Presented live from the White Horse in Black Mountain on November 14, 2020. Features Franklin Keel, cello and Daniel Weiser, piano/Artistic Director. Video produced by RadHaus Studios. Click on the screen and then click link on next screen when it says: “Watch on YouTube”. You will be able to see the video there.
PROGRAM: Variations on ‘Papageno’s Song’ from Mozart’s Magic Flute; Variations on ‘Bei Mannern’ duet from Mozart’s Magic Flute; Cello Sonata no. 3 in A Major, Op. 69Click on the screen and then click link on next screen when it says: “Watch on YouTube”. You will be able to see the video there.
Presented live from the White Horse in Black Mountain on November 15, 2020. Features Franklin Keel, cello and Daniel Weiser, piano/Artistic Director. Video produced by RadHaus Studios. Click on the screen and then click link on next screen when it says: “Watch on YouTube”. You will be able to see the video there.
PROGRAM: Variations on Handel’s ‘Judas Maccabeus’; Cello Sonata no. 4 in C Major, Op. 102, no. 1; Cello Sonata no. 5 in D Major, Op. 102, no. 2
Presented as a Livestream concert on November 7, 2020. Features Ron Erler, oboe; Sandy Johnson, bassoon; and Daniel Weiser, piano/Artistic Director.
PROGRAM: Ludwig van Beethoven Trio, Opus 11; Mikhail Glinka Trio Pathetique; and Gabriel Faure “Dolly” Suite as arranged by Christopher Kies. Recorded and edited by the Borowskys
Presented as a Livestream concert on October 25, 2020. Features Emmanuel Borowsky, violin; Frances Borowsky, cello; and Daniel Weiser, piano/Artistic Director.
PROGRAM: Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Trios—Opus 1, no. 1 and Opus 1, no. 3. Recorded and edited by the Borowskys
Presented as a Livestream concert on September 20, 2020 as the final concert on the AmiciMusic Jewish Festival Series, 2020. Features Emmanuel Borowsky, violin; Frances Borowsky, cello; and Daniel Weiser, piano/Artistic Director.
PROGRAM: David Popper Hungarian Rhapsody; Ernst Bloch Nigun, Joel Engels Freilach Trio, and the amazing Piano Trio no. 2, Op. 67 by Shostakovich. Recorded and edited by the Borowskys.
Presented as a Livestream concert on September 12, 2020 at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation in Baltimore as a special pre-Selichot program. Part of the “Music and Meaning” series at BHC made possible by a generous grant from the Peggy and Yale Gordon Foundation. Features Emmanuel Borowsky, violin; Frances Borowsky, cello; and Daniel Weiser, piano/Artistic Director. Wish special guest Cantor Ben Ellerin.
PROGRAM: Maurice Ravel “Kaddish”, Bach Cello Suite no. 3 Sarabande, Felix Mendelssohn D Minor Piano Trio (2nd mvt); Fanny Mendelssohn D Minor Piano Trio (2nd mvt). Ned Rorem song, Claude Debussy Piano Trio (3rd mvt) , Elizabeth Borowsky “Israel”, and Paul Schoenfield Cafe Music (2nd mvt). Recorded and edited by Emmanuel and Frances Borowsky
Music from the special evening Selichot Service at Baltimore Hebrew on September 12, 2020. Featuring Cantor Ben Ellerin along with Emmanuel (violin) and Frances (cello) Borowsky and Daniel Weiser on piano
PROGRAM: Hinei Eil Y’shuati (Zilberts); Achat Sha’alti (Katz); Ki Lekach Tov (Ellerin) ; Tavo L’fanecha (Janowski); Ashamnu (Traditional); Sh’ma Koleinu (Helfman); Mitratzei B’rachamim (Schnipelitsky) ; Avinu Malkeinu (Traditional)
Presented as a Livestream concert on September 9, 2020 at Beth El Congregation in Baltimore as part of their First Wednesday Concert series. Featuring Eyal Bor, clarinet; Emmanuel Borowsky, violin; Darragh Fitzgerald, violin; Radhames Santos, viola; Frances Borowsky, cello; and Daniel Weiser, piano/Artistic Director.
PROGRAM: Bela Kovacs “Sholom Aleichem”, Ernst Bloch “Prayer”, Joseph Achron “Hebrew Melody” , Lev Kogan “Hassidic Tunes”, Joel Engel “Freilach Trio”, Meira Warshauer “Yiddish Fantasy”, Alexander Krein “Hebrew Sketches”, and Sergei Prokofiev “Overture on Hebrew Themes”. Recorded and edited by Emmanuel and Frances Borowsky
Presented as a Livestream concert on July 25, 2020 on location at White Horse Black Mountain in North Carolina (one of the birthplaces of AmiciMusic) as part of their White Horse Live series (https://whitehorseblackmountain.com/whitehorselive/). Professionally recorded by the fantastic RadHaus Studios (https://radhaus.studio/). Featuring Artistic Director/pianist Daniel Weiser performing solo piano works by Louise Farrenc, Melanie Bonis, Cecile Chaminade, Amy Beach, Adaline Shepherd, Florence Price, and Margaret Bonds. Special guests Emma and Sophie Weiser, Dr. Weiser’s twin 14 year-old daughters, sing some Broadway songs in the middle as well.
Presented as a Livestream concert on July 18, 2020 with Artistic Director/pianist Daniel Weiser. This program features works by Marianne Martines, Marianna von Auernbrugger, Maria Szymanowska, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, and Clara Wieck Schumann plus intriguing stories about their lives and the difficulties they all faced in getting their musical “voices” heard because of their gender.
Presented as a Livestream concert on June 25, 2020 as part of the “Music and Meaning” Series at the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation. The program feature works for two pianos by Mozart, Arensky, Rachmaninoff, Guastavino, Bizet, and Cole Porter. Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser are the pianists.
Presented as a Livestream concert from June 22, 2020 featuring pianist and Artistic Director of AmiciMusic Daniel Weiser plus his nephew and guest artist Noah Teaney (16 years old). This is part five in a series of concerts highlighting great piano music from 1725-1925 with wonderful stories interspersed. This video was produced by Sally Sparks from Streamside Studios in Asheville as part of their Keep Music Live project during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Presented as a Livestream concert on May 10, 2020 as part of the “Music and Meaning’ Series presented by the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation. The program features Piano Trios and Songs by women composers with Emmanuel Borowsky, violin; Frances Borowsky, cello; Ben Ellerin, tenor; and Daniel Weiser, piano. Works by Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn, Louise Farrenc, Cecile Chaminade, Amy Beach, Elizabeth Borowsky, and Gywnneth Walker
Presented as a Livestream concert on May 5, 2020 as part of the Keep Music Live Project directed by Streamside Studios in Asheville, NC. This program features solo piano works by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Chopin. Featuring Daniel Weiser, piano and special guest Noah Teaney, piano (Dan’s 16 year-old nephew). We had some internet issues so audio/visual quality not perfect—gets better in future parts
Presented as a Livestream concert on May 16, 2020 as part of the Keep Music Live Project directed by Streamside Studios in Asheville, NC. Solo piano works by Chopin, Felix & Fanny Mendelsson, plus Robert & Clara Schumann. Featuring Daniel Weiser on piano. Great stories and quotes about the composers as well. Much better audio/visual quality than Part One
Presented as a Livestream concert on May 31, 2020 as part of the Keep Music Live Project directed by Streamside Studios in Asheville, NC. Solo piano works by Brahms, Liszt, Grieg, Glinka, Rubinstein, and Mussorgsky. Lots of great stories and quotes by and about the composers. Featuring Daniel Weiser on piano with Noah Teaney, my 16 year old nephew, playing some Liszt as well
Presented as a Livestream concert on June 14, 2020 as part of the Keep Music Live Project directed by Streamside Studios in Asheville, NC. Solo piano works by Tchaikovsky, Cui, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff, and Faure. Featuring Daniel Weiser on piano with his 16 year-old nephew, Noah Teaney, joining as guest artist
Here are links to the videos from my Mozart Zoom class that ran for four weeks in April and May as the Covid Quarantine was in place. Quality gets better over the weeks as I learned to use Zoom! Hope you enjoy!
Class One: The Chid Prodigy https://zoom.us/rec/play/u5wsdOGurzw3SNWW4gSDBvN5W9XseKushHdKqaAEnUvhAHlWNAXyM7RBNutK0CLlA1S0SswfVat9IPcF
Class Two: Early Vienna Years.
Class Three: Vienna (1783-1786)
Class Four: The Final Years
Below, please enjoy a selection of recent videos from live concerts (from the good old days of live concerts) such as “JEWISH JAZZ,” “SONGS of LOVE,” “The OPERATIC CELLO,” “MUSIC from the UNDERGROUND,” “BLOWIN’ in the WINDS” and more. We will try to change these every month or so. Come back soon to explore more exciting videos from AmiciMusic!
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