rofessional Concert Series
rofessional Concert Series
Washington Conservatory of Music presents
Saturday, April 10, at 8 PM
Westmoreland Congregational
United Church of Christ
One Westmoreland Circle, Bethesda, MD 20816
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"The Shadow of Your Wings," an evening of music, art, and poetry, complemented by digital projections, is a multi-layered artistic experience providing the audience members with a unique historical perspective on the concentration camp named Terezin.
Doris Lederer, Shenandoah Conservatory viola professor and violist of the famed Audubon Quartet, is the child of Holocaust survivors. She and her quartet colleagues became involved with the music from Terezin when it was discovered that her father had been a key figure in the musical life of the camp. He not only performed regularly for other Terezin prisoners, but also organized many of the camp’s public musical events from 1941-1944.
Through its extensive research, the Audubon Quartet has discovered a considerable amount of music that had been composed and performed in Terezin by its “citizens.” The composers and first performers of this music were among the elite of Europe’s creative talent, but few of these great artists survived their experiences in Terezin. Those who did survive passed down a great musical tradition to their children and students. Those who did not survive perished for the “crime” of being Jewish.
The Shadow of Your Wings presentation includes the live performance of eight works composed in Terezin concentration camp:
| Lied ohne Worte (Terezín, 1942) | Frantisek Domazlicky (1913-1995) |
| Praeludium, EDEstein (Terezin, 1942) | Viktor Kohn (1910-1944, Terezin) |
| Chassidic Dances (Terezin, 1941/42) | Zikmund Schul (1916-1944, Terezin) |
| Gavotte (Terezín, 1942) | Egon Ledec (1889-1944, Auschwitz) |
| Theme and Variations (1936) | Hans Krasa (1899-1944, Auschwitz) |
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String Quartet No, 2, Op. 7 (1927) II. Coach, Coachman, and Horse |
Pavel Haas (1899-1944, Auschwitz) |
| Fugue (Terezin, 1942) | Gideon Klein (1919-1944, Fürstengrube) |
| In the Shadow of Your Wings (Terezin, 1942) |
David Grünfeld (1915-1963, NY) (Notated by Zikmund Schul) |
Uv'Tzeil K'nofecho (In the Shadow of Your Wings)
Shelter us in the shadow of Your wings:
For you are our protecting and saving God;
You are indeed a gracious and merciful God and King:
Guard our going out and our coming in,
For life and peace, henceforth and forever.
Narrator for the performance is KirstenTrump, Associate Professor of Theatre at Shenandoah University. Poetry readings will be performed by 14-year-old Denisa Banasova, from Jesenik, in the Czech Republic, and Evan Baranowski and Jennie Greenfield, students at Shenandoah Conservatory, Winchester, VA.
The Audubon String Quartet, renowned for their “strikingly beautiful, luminescent” sound (The New York Times), has won acclaim throughout the world. Founded in 1974, the ensemble quickly achieved international recognition by winning top prizes in three major competitions in their first four years: The International String Quartet Competition in Evina, France; The String Quartet Competition at the Festival Villa-Lobos in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and The International String Quartet Competition in Portsmouth, England. They were the first American string quartet ever to win a first prize in international string quartet competition. The Quartet performs regularly in the major concert halls throughout the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, as well as having performed recently in South America and the Caribbean. In 1981, the Quartet made a three-week tour of Mainland China at the invitation of the Chinese Ministry of Culture – the first quartet to ever visit the People’s Republic of China. Other performance venues include the White House, and the Quartet has appeared on many radio and television shows, including the BBC in London and CBS Sunday Morning. Members of the Quartet are Ellen Jewett (violin), Doris Lederer (viola), Clyde Shaw (cello), and Akemi Takayama (violin). The Audubon Quartet is Quartet in Residence at Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, VA.
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