Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus, NYC, 27 Apr 2013
Saturday eve, April 27, 2013, 8:00 PM
"22nd Interfaith Concert of Remembrance"
Commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (April-May 1943)
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
1047 Amsterdam Ave @ 112th Street,
New York, NY 10025
The JPPC will open the concert
with a 15-minute set of Yiddish Holocaust music, including excerpts from Max Helfman's choral tone poem Di naye hagode ("The New Haggadah", composed 1948), itself a choral interpretation of Itsik Fefer's epic poem, Di shotns fun Varshever geto
("The Shadows of the Warsaw Ghetto", published 1945). Concert includes Beethoven's 9th Symphony, the famous 4th Movement.
Admission: Free (for non-reserved seating).
Additional information: holocaust-concerts.org
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