October 25, 2006
Beverly Hills Concert Music and the Holocaust: Survival, Resistance and Response
"Music and the Holocaust: Survival, Resistance and Response" is a concert of rarely heard music composed in hiding, before deportation, and in Nazi concentration camps and ghettos.The Concert features Choral Society of Southern California, Los Angeles Zimriyah Chorale, USC Thornton School of Music Chamber Choir and student soloists, members of the Los Angeles Vocal & Instrumental Ensemble ( la vie ), Cantor David Cane, and recordings made in the camps. The program will include works from various composers in hiding, concentration camps and ghettos, including:
-- Cantor David Cane's performance of songs he was forced to sing in Auschwitz.
-- A Jewish composer's eight-minute choral work, written in the Kreuzburg Civilian Internment Camp as a gift to Christian inmates who protected him and several other Jewish inmates.
-- Short recordings made during the war in Kreuzburg.
-- Commentary by Nick Strimple, Holocaust music scholar and USC faculty member.
WHEN: November 2, 2006 at 8:00 P. M.
WHERE: Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church
505 N. Rodeo Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
WHO: Sponsored by the American Musicological Society, the Jewish Music Commission of Los Angeles and the Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church. Conducted by Magen Solomon and Nick Strimple, both USC Thornton School of Music faculty members.
TICKETS: $18 adult, $10 student. Reservations at 310.271.5194, ask for Emily. Posted by jmwc at October 25, 2006 06:27 PM