Jewish Songs and Dances for Piano: Juliusz Wolfsohn’s ‘Paraphrasen’
Hosted By: YIVO
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents the YouTube premiere of Juliusz Wolfsohn’s “Paraphrasen,” a collection of 12 virtuosic piano fantasies based on Yiddish folksongs. Wolfsohn, a Warsaw-born pianist, critic, and composer active in the Association for the Promotion of Jewish Music in Vienna, later settled in the United States, where he died in 1944; “Paraphrasen” is one of several works he composed on Eastern European Jewish themes. The 12 pieces will be performed by Ryan MacEvoy McCullough.
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