Phillip and Noreen Silver to perform in Amsterdam
University of Maine music professors Phillip and Noreen Silver will perform the works of James Simon (1880–1944) in a Uilenburg Concert, sponsored by the Leo Smit Foundation, March 12 in Theatre Splendor, Amsterdam. More information about the program is online.
Simon, a Berlin-born composer and pianist who fled to the Netherlands in 1933 and was murdered in Auschwitz, has been the subject of research by Phillip Silver. As a pianist, Phillip Silver, and Noreen Silver, a cellist, have performed works by Simon in concerts around the world.
Recently, Phillip Silver discovered a sextet for wind instruments and piano, a work Simon composed in Berlin. In the March 12 concert the sextet will be performed for the first time in almost a century.
The Silver Duo also will perform live on Dutch radio March 11 in a performance at Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. More information about the event is online.