In the Arizona Jewish Post a new entry was published today about the YomShoah commemoration ‘A Grave in the Air’ featuring the Leo Smit composition I finished for this occasion: http://azjewishpost.com/photo-gallery/in-focus-2012-april-june/: ‘More than 400 people attended the community-wide Yom HaShoah Commemoration, “A Grave in the Air: A Musical Remembrance,” on Sunday, April 22. Organized by…
Yesterday, the 3rd of May, a Requiem for Auschwitz: a monument in music, film, images and words received its premiere in the Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam. Requiem for Auschwitz is a shared moment for representatives of the Jewish, Roma, Sinti and other victim groups. It is a living proof of the power of culture against discrimination…
The camp survivors who were honored during the Tucson ceremony had all emigrated from Russia or the Ukraine relatively recently, in the nineties. I didn’t know in advance, coming to Tuscon, that the camp survivors would all be recent Russian or Ukrainian immigrants… The woman I accompanied and her family had – amazingly – survived…
Lighting a candle, during the ceremony, with a Holocaust survivor; in the background members of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. The six candles symbolize the 6 million Jews killed during World War II. Sunday the 22th of April, I attended a Holocaust memorial which took place at the Jewish Community Center in Tucson, Arizona, organized by Melissa…
From Arizona Public Media: http://www.azpm.org/business/story/2012/4/20/749-international-remembrance-locally-orchestrated/ The Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona’s Coalition for Jewish Education and the Tucson Symphony Orchestra are working together to produce a night of remembrance through music for Yom HaShoah this Sunday. “A Grave in the Air: Yom HaShoah 2012, A Musical Remembrance” is a night dedicated to observing the artistic…
The Arizona Jewish Post published an article on the Yom HaShoah remembrance that took place April 22nd. http://azjewishpost.com/2012/tso-strings-to-perform-at-yom-hashoah-remembrance/ The text of the article: Sixteen members of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra will perform the work of Leo Smit, a Dutch Jewish composer killed in the Holocaust, at the community’s annual Holocaust commemoration, “A Grave in the…
Text by Yakov Glatstein. Performed by Shura Lipovsky-mezzo soprano, Ivar Berix-clarinet, Lis Perry-violin, Esra Pehlivani-viola, Timora Rosler-cello. Biografiye is the final 12 minutes of a documentary by Deborah van Dam about my trip to the Ukraine in search of my grandparents shtetls. The documentary about this trip can be viewed here. The text of the…
Jeff Hamburg 