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Spring Concert: VEDEM


VEDEM

 A concert to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day

Monday, May 10
 
7:15 p.m. Meet the Composer: John Sharify Interviews Lori Laitman and David Mason
8:00 p.m. Concert
 
"It is difficult to think of anyone before the public today who equals [Lori Laitman's] exceptional gifts for embracing a poetic text and giving it new and deeper life through music."--Journal of Singing
 
"Lori Laitman has a remarkable gift for setting music to words."--Washington Post

Our spring concert commemorates lives cut tragically short, and focuses on the youth imprisoned at the Terezín concentration camp. You’ll have the privilege of attending the world premiere of MOR’s newest commission, Vedem. This Holocaust oratorio by award-winning composer Lori Laitman and poet/librettist David Mason tells the astonishing story of the boys at Terezín and their clandestine journal Vedem. The incomparable Northwest Boychoir, along with tenor Ross Hauck and mezzo-soprano Angela Niederloh, join us to unveil this extraordinary work. You’ll also hear Pavel Haas’ String Quartet no. 3 from 1938.  Cellist Julian Schwarz will return to perform his father Gerard Schwarz’s soulful elegy, composed in memory of our dear friend and colleague David Tonkonogui. Buy your tickets today.

Vedem Issue No. 52, 1944
The Terezin Memorial

6:45 p.m. Meet the Composer

John Sharify interviews Lori Laitman and David Mason
 
Gerard Schwarz
In Memoriam (2005)
Julian Schwarz, cello
Elisa Barston, violin Leonid Keylin, violin
Susan Gulkis Assadi, viola Mara Finkelstein, cello

 

 
Pavel Haas
String Quartet No. 3 (1938)
Mikhail Shmidt, violin Elisa Barston, violin
Susan Gulkis Assadi, viola Walter Gray, cello
 
Lori Laitman
Vedem (2010)
Libretto by David Mason
 
World Premiere!
A Holocaust Oratorio Commissioned by Music of Remembrance
Ross Hauck, tenor Angela Niederloh, mezzo soprano
Mikhail Shmidt, violin Laura DeLuca, clarinet Walter Gray, cello Mina Miller, piano 
The Northwest Boychoir, Joseph Crnko, conductor