HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR- IRVING ROTH
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21ST 7:00 – 8:30pm
USC Campus, Columbia, SC
Darla Moore School of Business Room 002
Doors open at 6:30
A Week of Remembrance: A Celebration of Jewish Culture
Beginning Sunday, April 15 through Saturday, April 21, 2012 Opera-tunity Foundation and the USC School of Music will present a very special project entitled: A Week of Remembrance...a Celebration of Jewish Culture.
This project will pay tribute to the memory of those murdered during the Holocaust of WWII and honor their many amazing acts of bravery against the forces of tyranny and hatred.
The opening musical program presented in collaboration with the University of South Carolina (USC) Symphony Orchestra, USC Choirs under the direction of Maestro Donald Portnoy and Larry Wyatt will offer the South Carolina premiere of Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin and begin a week-long tribute to Jewish culture. A pre-concert lecture will feature a talk from Edgar Krasa, Terezin survivor along with other guests.
DEFIANT REQUIEM--VERDI AT TEREZIN tells the story of courageous Jewish prisoners who performed Verdi's Requiem Mass while in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp during World War II. Conductor Murry Sidlin is the creative motivation behind the true WWII concentration camp story which is the Defiant Requiem.
The Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin is a powerful multi-media production which tells the story of the courageous and innovative prisoners who used their performances of the magnificent music of Verdi's Requiem to show their defiance to their captors. The work interweaves Verdi's Requiem with video clip interviews of actual Terezin survivors, dramatic readings from inmate's diaries, and Nazi film footage.
Tribute Week: Sunday, April 15 through Saturday, April 21, 2012
Week-long Display at the Richland County Public Library(s)
Lecture Series:
A Study of Mahler in lecture and Music
Ela Weissberger, prisoner in Theresienstadt concentration camp
Murry Sidlin and the making of The Defiant Requiem
Film Series:
Ben Hur, Diary of Anne Frank
The Last Angry Man
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
(Nickelodean Theatre, Russell House, Richland County Public Library)
Music:
Composers of Terezin and the Holocaust Rediscovered
USC Wind Ensemble performance of celebrated Jewish Composers
Defiant Requiem-Verdi in Terezin (Koger Center)
Brundibar, a Children’s Opera written and performed in the Terezin concentration camp
Original music by Ayala Asherov Kalus and Meira Warshauer
“The Jewish Soul” solo recital
Holocaust Cantata
Visual Arts:
Works by elementary school children given their impressions on the theme: What Freedom Means to Me and a photographic exhibition entitled: Through the Eyes of Children of Terezin. This features a photo display and book signing of her book The Cat with the Yellow Star
Student Outreach:
A Statewide contest for K-12 (of varying mediums) on their perception and understanding of WWII and the Holocaust
Please visit our website for more details on events:
Opera-tunityFoundation.webs.com
Janet Hopkins
Or contact us at: OperatunitySC@gmail.com
Opera-tunity Foundation
USC School of Music
813 Assembly Street
Columbia, SC 29208
803.777.0772
Holocaust Remembered Exhibit
A visual exhibit of SC Holocaust survivors and liberators
September 26-October 31 2011
The Katie and Irwin Kahn Jewish Community Center
306 Flora Dr. Columbia, S.C. 29224
For more information contact: Erica Serbin or Ben Krantz at 787-2023
America’s Involvement: Lessons from the Holocaust:
Presented by
The South Carolina Council on the Holocaust Teacher Advisory Committee
Keynote Speaker: T. Moffatt Burriss , Liberator
Workshop conducted by: Dr. Mary Johnson,
Friday, October 28, 2011
Registration 8:00 and 8:30 Workshop: 8:30-4:00
Katie and Irwin Kahn Jewish Community Center
306 Flora Dr. Columbia, SC 29224
See link for registration
Yom Hoshoah
April 19th, 2012
Holocaust Remembrance Day
7:00 p.m. at Beth Shalom Synagogue 5827 N. Trenholm Road, Cola 29206
For more info contact the Community Relations Coordinator, 787-2023 ext. 219 or crc@jewishcolumbia.org
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