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Conference performance/presentation

Topol (The Poplar Tree), by Gideon Klein

Pre-performance talk about, and performance of, Gideon Klein's melodrama Topol (The Poplar Tree)

Date	25th July 2017
URL	https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/161433/british-association-holocaust-studies-conference-2017
Format	Live performance/presentation

This formed part of a Performing the Jewish Archive panel at 'Interpreting Archives', the British Association of Holocaust Studies Fourth Annual Conference in Sheffield, 2017. Topol was performed by Hugh McCarron (piano) and David Fligg (narrator).

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Music manuscript

Topol (The Poplar Tree)

Manuscript of melodrama composed by Gideon Klein in 1938, premiered in 2016 as part of Performing the Jewish Archive.

Person

David Fligg

Musicologist and researcher associated with Performing the Jewish Archive.

Event

Interpreting Archives

British Association of Holocaust Studies Fourth Annual Conference in Sheffield, 2017, where David Fligg and Simo Muir had presentations

Person

Gideon Klein

Moravian-born composer and pianist based in Prague, and one of the most important artists in the Terezín(Theresienstadt) ghetto.

Place

University of Sheffield

University of Sheffield, which hosted the 'Interpreting Archives', the British Association of Holocaust Studies Fourth Annual Conference, 2017.

Work

Topol (Krajina)

Melodrama for narrator and piano by Gideon Klein