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Jewish Federation Concert
To Feature Music Of Holocaust Composers
The Deborah & Larry D. Silver Center for Jewish Tickets are $18 per person and can be purchased at
Engagement, a program of the Jewish Federation of https://jewishboca.org/events/echoes-of-hope. Tickets are
South Palm Beach County, will host a concert, “Echoes of required to gain entry to the campus.
Hope,” featuring the music of composers who survived/ “Echoes of Hope” is a way for patrons to commemorate
endured the Holocaust. Yom HaShoah Ve-Hagevurah, the remembrance day of
The concert will be held at 6 p.m., April 18, in Zinman the Holocaust and heroism, which is the Jewish Memorial
Hall on the Jewish Federation campus, 9901 Donna Day for the Shoah. It is marked on the 27th of the Hebrew
Klein Blvd., in Boca. It will feature acclaimed violinist, month of Nisan, a week before Yom Hazikaron, or Israel’s
David Lisker, a Juilliard graduate and former student of Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism.
legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman. This year, Yom HaShoah begins the evening of April 17
The program will celebrate the lives and music of nine and ends the evening of April 18.
Jewish composers directly affected by the Holocaust, The “Echoes of Hope” concert will feature violinists
eight of whom perished in the concentration camps. Lisker and Regi Papa, violist Katarzyna Bryla, cellist David Lisker
Lisker, along with six world-renowned musicians, Michael Katz, soprano Leila Bowie, and pianist Renana
will perform a wide array of works by these inspiring Gutman; a piano trio by Mieczyslaw Weinberg, selections Weber, Pavel Haas, and Carlo Taube; movements from
individuals. from string quartets by Erwin Schulhoff; songs by Ilse string trios by Hans Krasa and Gideon Klein; the first
movement of Piano Sonata No. 7 by Viktor Ullmann, the
only surviving composition by Robert Dauber; as well as
beloved works by Joseph Achron and Ernest Bloch.
“If these composers had been allowed to realize their
A potential, they would have had the capacity to alter the
history of music in the 20th century,” said Rabbi Josh
Broide, director of the Center for Jewish Engagement.
The program, which took nearly a year to develop,
COLONOSCOPY included researching the composers, discovering their
individual bodies of work, and determining how many
Some of the featured composers, such as Mieczyslaw
compositions survived the war.
CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE. Weinberg, Viktor Ullmann, and Erwin Schulhoff,
left behind a tremendous amount of music, including
operas, symphonies, chamber music and songs. In more
unfortunate cases, only single works remained, such as
Robert Dauber’s Serenade for Violin and Piano, and Carlo
Taube’s Ein Judisches Kind, a song for soprano and piano.
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit
https://jewishboca.org/events/echoes-of-hope/.
About The Jewish Federation Of South Palm Beach
County
Established in 1979, the JFSPBC is made up of Jewish
and social service organizations, synagogues and schools
that provide valued services and programs to recipients in
South Palm Beach County, in Israel and around the world.
The JFSPBC is also comprised of local residents, including
lay leadership, volunteer, donors, professional staff, rabbis,
educators, event participants and students. Situated on a
100-acre campus in west Boca Raton – the largest in the
nation – the JFSPBC supports more than 70 beneficiaries,
engages with more than 5,000 donors, and connects more
than 130,000 residents. To learn more about how we
contribute to a shared vision for the Jewish community,
visit https://jewishboca.org or call (561) 852-3100.
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