The Shoah Songbook explores music that was written by Jewish composers between 1940 and 1945 who perished in the concentration camps and ghettos of the Holocaust.

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The Shoah Songbook explores music that was written by Jewish composers between 1940 and 1945 who perished in the concentration camps and ghettos of the Holocaust. The concert will feature some of the highlights of the first three virtual instalments which focused on Czechoslovakia, Lithuania and Poland as well as newly discovered works.

STARRING & CURATED BY
Likht Ensemble’s
Jaclyn Grossman &
Nate Ben-Horin

SPECIAL GUEST
Violinist Barry Shiffman

MUSICAL DIRECTION BY
Nate Ben-Horin

NARRATED BY
Ben Heppner


“There is no better way for the memory of the Holocaust to live on than through the preservation and dissemination of the luminous music by its lost generation of artists.”
COMPOSER VIKTOR ULLMAN

Presented by:

In Partnership with:

Committee for Yiddish, Liberation 75

Start Date: January 27, 2024

8:00 PM

Midtown Toronto

THE GREENWIN THEATRE
Meridian Arts Centre

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$25 + fees

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