UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM  

Chamber Music Series

SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 2001
3 p.m.

The April 29 concert, which is one of a series of Public Programs commemorating National Poetry Month, will feature the world premiere of Herman Berlinski's Celan for Piano and Narrator. The work is inspired by Paul Celan, a Romanian Jewish poet who was a forced laborer during the war.

Allan Blank
Poems from the Holocaust for Mezzo-Soprano, Double Bass, and Piano (1995-96)*

Lori Laitman
Holocaust 1944 for Baritone and Double Bass (1999)***

Herman Berlinski
Celan for Piano and Narrator (1999)***

William Sharp, Baritone
Kathryn Honan-Carter, Mezzo-Soprano
Harold Robinson, Double Bass
Edward Newmann, Piano

*Washington premiere
**United States premiere
***World premiere

Piesn Obozowa "Camp Song"The Schindler ViolinThe Westerbork Camp OrchestraGypsy Accordion

 

 

Sundays at 3 p.m.
Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Theater United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Metro: Smithsonian
www.ushmm.org
To guarantee seating, call tickets.com (800) 400-9373. All concerts are free, but service fees apply.

October 22, 2000
January 21, 2001
April 29, 2001
May 20, 2001
June 10, 2001