Featuring members of the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra and sung in English by students of The Crowden School, the program will be introduced by Joel ben Izzy and special guest Ela Weissberger, Theresienstadt survivor and original cast member. For children 9 and older. One hour program. Sponsored by an anonymous donor in honor of Ursula Sherman, and Leonard Merrill Kurz . The Jews of Africa Lecture with Jay Sand Performer and African music researcher Jay Sand presents his fascinating field work on the music of several little-known Jewish communities including the Abayudaya of Uganda, the Rusape of Zimbabwe, and the House of Israel of Ghana.
Presentation includes live and recorded examples and a slide show.
Sponsored by American Jewish World Service. Accompanied by his own guitar and by pianist Natasha Jitomirskaia, he will perform classically arranged folk songs from the Eastern Sephardic tradition, late 19 th century liturgical music from Livorno, Italy, and contemporary arrangements of traditional Ladino songs from the Balkans. Sierra Blvd., Sacramento. Long Live Life Theresienstadt, 1941-1945 Artistic Director, Sylvie Braitman Uplifting, passionate music was composed in the Czech concentration camp of Theresienstadt, where many of Europe's most gifted musicians were imprisoned. The inmates used their creative endeavors as tools of resistance, even as the Nazis exploited them through concerts staged to persuade the world that rumors of a Holocaust were unfounded.