Keith Powers
WHERE: online; recorded in Rockport Music’s Shalin Liu Performance Center
WHEN: Thursdays, Feb. 11–March 11, 7 p.m. Available through Sunday each week
TICKETS: Free. Visit musicfromthesuitcase.com
Some people can’t go home.
The family of violinist Yevgeny Kutik, a Belorussian Jew, fled Minsk in 1990. He was 5. They haven’t gone back.
After generations of violence against family members, during the long, notorious history of Russian anti-Semitism, they had had enough.
When they left, everyone got to bring two suitcases. Kutik’s mother, Alla Zernitskaya, filled one entirely with sheet music.
Those scores Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Achron, Bloch and others form the basis of Kutik’s documentary series, “Finding Home: Music from the Suitcase,” available for free on YouTube and FaceBook with a new episode each week through March 11.
Friends of the Goodnow Library to concert
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The Friends of the Goodnow Library will hold a classical piano concert featuring German pianist Clemens Teufel at 3 p.m. Jan. 10.
This is the first virtual concert using a platform from Groupmuse that will enable attendees to meet with the performer before the concert and then watch the performance. After the performance, attendees will again be able to assemble virtually to connect and share questions and comments.
Registration is required through https://bit.ly/3nIKzfa.
The concert, titled “Rhapsody and Reverie,” will feature the works of Franz Liszt and Frederic Chopin, two masters of the Romantic period of classical music. The contrasting musical manifestations of “Rhapsody and Reverie” are ecstasy and passion versus poetic vision and meditation. While the common perception is that Franz Liszt boldly represents the former and Frederic Chopin the latter, these concepts are broadly exchangeable between the t