Tradition & renewal

On the occasion of the 130. To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of the legendary composer of German-Jewish synagogal music Louis Lewandowski, international greats of synagogal music are coming to the Villa Seligmann. On the summer stage in the garden, some of the best-known melodies from the traditional liturgy, music by Lewandowski, Yiddish songs and Israeli classics will be performed in new artistic sound environments under the title “Tradition & Renewal”.

Cantor Netanel Baram, Tenor (Beverly Hills – California)
Cantor Amnon Seelig, baritone (Mannheim)
Prof. Mark Kligman, Conductor (Los Angeles, Philadelphia)
Asambura Ensemble (Hanover)

The cantor of the Jewish community of Beverly Hills will be a guest at Villa Seligmann for the first time Netanel Baram. Together with the cantor of the Jewish community in Mannheim, Amnon SeeligBaram creates a varied and generally accessible program of well-known liturgical titles from the oeuvre of Lewandowski, but also from the so-called Golden Age of the Syanagogalgesag.

The two cantors will be accompanied by the Hanover-based
Asambura Ensemble
which has made a name for itself with diverse, multi- and intercultural music projects. The moderator and director is
Prof. Mark Kligman
who is the program curator and music arranger. Prof. Kligman is one of the world’s most important academics in the field of Jewish ethnomusicology.

This concert opens the garden season at Villa Seligmann.

Netanel Baram was born in Jerusalem. He is a graduate of the Tel Aviv Cantorial Institute and has been a soloist in many cantorial concerts in Israel and abroad. Netanel was a guest chazzan in the Great Synagogue of Jerusalem as well as in congregations in South Africa, Switzerland, Australia and other countries. He has also performed as a soloist with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and the Kibbutz Lavi Music Festival. He is currently the cantor of Young Israel North in Beverly Hills, California

Amnon Seelig, born in Munich, completed his vocal and music theory studies at the Jerusalem Academy of Music with a Bachelor’s degree and his vocal studies with Prof. Donald Litaker at the Karlsruhe University of Music with a Master’s degree. In 2010, Seelig began a Master’s degree in Jewish Studies at the University of Potsdam and was ordained as a synagogue cantor by the Abraham Geiger College in 2015. He has served as cantor in synagogues in Berlin, Munich, Augsburg, Warsaw, Brussels and elsewhere and has been employed as cantor of the Jewish community of Düsseldorf, the third largest Jewish community in Germany, since December 2015.

Mark Kligman is the inaugural holder of the Mickey Katz Endowed Chair in Jewish Music at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, where he is Professor of Ethnomusicology and Musicology. He specializes in the liturgical traditions of Jewish communities in the Middle East and various areas of popular Jewish music. Orthodox popular music is the subject of his current work. He is the academic chair of the Jewish Music Forum, co-editor of the journal MusicaJudaica and director of the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience.

The Asambura Ensemble interpreted, contextualized and composed classic Music with cultural, interreligious and post-migrant dialog perspectives in a tonal and diversity-sensitive way. Musicians of different origins and cultural backgrounds Interact affiliation in the asambura ensemble and the belonging to it Mediation collective. In doing so, asambura is always looking for how familiar sounds can be innovatively made audible and tangible and Bridges between supposedly Contrary can be developed. In more conscious Friction with the cultural diverse, from social, social and political Conflics worn Present asambura develops a sound language that opens up new perspectives for an appreciative, discrimination-sensitive coexistence in diversity.

Netanel Baram was born in Jerusalem. He is a graduate of the Tel Aviv Cantorial Institute and has been a soloist in many cantorial concerts in Israel and abroad. Netanel was a guest chazzan in the Great Synagogue of Jerusalem as well as in congregations in South Africa, Switzerland, Australia and other countries. He has also performed as a soloist with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and the Kibbutz Lavi Music Festival. He is currently the cantor of Young Israel North in Beverly Hills, California

Amnon Seelig, born in Munich, completed his vocal and music theory studies at the Jerusalem Academy of Music with a Bachelor’s degree and his vocal studies with Prof. Donald Litaker at the Karlsruhe University of Music with a Master’s degree. In 2010, Seelig began a Master’s degree in Jewish Studies at the University of Potsdam and was ordained as a synagogue cantor by the Abraham Geiger College in 2015. He has served as cantor in synagogues in Berlin, Munich, Augsburg, Warsaw, Brussels and elsewhere and has been employed as cantor of the Jewish community of Düsseldorf, the third largest Jewish community in Germany, since December 2015.

Mark Kligman is the inaugural holder of the Mickey Katz Endowed Chair in Jewish Music at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, where he is Professor of Ethnomusicology and Musicology. He specializes in the liturgical traditions of Jewish communities in the Middle East and various areas of popular Jewish music. Orthodox popular music is the subject of his current work. He is the academic chair of the Jewish Music Forum, co-editor of the journal MusicaJudaica and director of the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience.

The Asambura Ensemble interpreted, contextualized and composed classic Music with cultural, interreligious and post-migrant dialog perspectives in a tonal and diversity-sensitive way. Musicians of different origins and cultural backgrounds Interact affiliation in the asambura ensemble and the belonging to it Mediation collective. In doing so, asambura is always looking for how familiar sounds can be innovatively made audible and tangible and Bridges between supposedly Contrary can be developed. In more conscious Friction with the cultural diverse, from social, social and political Conflics worn Present asambura develops a sound language that opens up new perspectives for an appreciative, discrimination-sensitive coexistence in diversity.

Tickets for 15 (reduced 8) euros are available in the webshop, by e-mail to karten@villa-seligmann.de or by telephone on 0511 844887-200.

Important note: The concert is an open-air event. In the event of bad weather, a postponement will be sought. All tickets purchased remain valid and a new date will be scheduled within one calendar year. If a postponement is not possible, all tickets purchased will be refunded. There is no entitlement to compensation.

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