On Sunday, April 12, at 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music faculty members and students will perform works by select Jewish composers to mark Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day).
This program will include powerful works by Gideon Klein, Wladyslaw Szpilman, Erwin Schulhoff, and Paul Schoenfield which honor those who perished, those who survived, and those who were involved in the horrible events of the Holocaust. You can read more information about the program here.
Seventy years after the Holocaust we still deal with discrimination and hatred in our society; it can be seen everywhere, but it falls to us to do everything we can to destroy it. Despite the endless search for jobs, and the endless hours spent in the practice room, playing music to bring people together is still one of the most virtuous things that can be done in this field. This concert is a chance to be a part of that aim: a time to reaffirm our collective memories of this event by honoring those who were there.
Eastman students and faculty members who will perform in the “A Time to Remember . . .” concert are pianists Natalya Antonova and Irina Lupines, violinists Renée Jolles, Seo Hee Min, and William Herzog, violists George Taylor and Sergio Munoz, cellists Rosemary Elliott, Mimi Hwang, and Ray Kim, clarinetist Kenneth Grant, and Jan Opalach as the male narrator in Paul Schoenfield’s Sparks of Glory.
Admission to “A Time To Remember . . .” is $10 at the door (free to all UR ID holders). Tickets are available at the Eastman Theatre Box Office, 433 East Main St.; by phone 585-454-2100; by fax 585-454-7885; or online at https://www.esm.rochester.edu/concerts/tickets/
— Andrew Psarris ’15