Re: Ullmann Scores

[JeffSchan <JeffSchan...>]

Thank all of you for your help.  I am new on this list and no idea of what a
great resource it is.  Bret Werb of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum is
sending me a manuscript of Ullmann's Sonata No. 6.  I will post a notice for
the concert next week, as well as a notice for my recently released CD No
More In Thrall, for string quartet and percussion, commemorating the 50th
anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald,
where my father was a prisoner.

To reply to Ruth Rose - I owe you an apology.  I did not read your post
carefully enough and thought you were saying that all or most of Ullmann's
music could not be considered Jewish.  A lot did not, but some did.  He was
also very much responsible for organizing and promoting much of the Jewish
"classical" music scene in Terezin.  I just have a difficult time with
setting up criteria to exclude the work of Jewish composers from being
"Jewish" music.  As for myself, being a communist (Trotskyist) and therefore
an atheist, my second generation identity is far stronger than my "Jewish"
identity, so if people don't consider me or my music Jewish, I don't mind.
 However, perhaps in typical second generation fashion, I immediately rush to
the defense of anyone of my parent's generation.

Jeffrey Schanzer