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- Bryce Dessner
Aheym (for chamber or string orchestra) (2009)
- Chester Music Ltd (World)
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- 10 min
- 10th November 2022, Verkadefabriek, s'Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
- 22nd April 2023, Isarphilharmonie Gasteig, Munich, Germany
Programme Note
Aheym means ‘homeward’ in Yiddish, and this piece is written as musical evocation of the idea of flight and passage. As little boys, my brother and I used to spend hours with my grandmother, asking her about the details of how she came to America. (My father’s family were Jewish immigrants from Poland and Russia). She could only give us a smattering of details, but they all found their way into our collective imagination, eventually becoming a part of our own cultural identity and connection to the past. In her poem “Di rayze aheym,” the American-Yiddish poet Irena Klepfisz, a professor at Barnard in New York and one of the few child survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto, writes: “Among strangers is her home. Here right here she must live. Her memories will become monuments.
Aheym is dedicated to my grandmother, Sarah Dessner.
(c) Bryce Dessner
Aheym is dedicated to my grandmother, Sarah Dessner.
(c) Bryce Dessner
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- Bryce Dessner and Ensemble Resonanz receive the OPUS KLASSIK 2020
- 7th September 2020
- Ensemble Resonanz has been named OPUS KLASSIK 2020 Ensemble/Orchestra of the Year for Tenebre, its album of music by Bryce Dessner. Hosted by the Verein zur Förderung der Klassischen Musik, the OPUS KLASSIK is...