Concert #4: Experimental Music Reacts to the Holocaust

Tuesday, April 12^th, 7:30pm 

Katzin Concert Hall, ASU School of Music

The last concert in the series features works that respond to the Holocaust using unconventional musical means. The concert features two works. One is Different Trains, the masterpiece by the minimalist composer Steve Reich. It will be performed by Clarice Collins (violin), Alex Duke (cello), Daniel Lorenzo (viola), and Amanda Romani (violin). The other is my own composition, which is the creative culmination of my research into music and the Holocaust. The piece is for a chamber ensemble and laptops, performed by Lisa Atkinson (percussion), Josh Bennett (clarinet), Alexandra Birch (violin), Jacqueline Fazekas (French horn), Joseph Petite (bass), and LORKAS members: Justin Kennedy, Paloma Orozco, and Althea Pergakis.  

Free admission.

Concert #3: Butterflies Do Not Live Here

Wednesday, January 27^th, 7pm 

Cutler-Plotkin Jewish Heritage Center, 122 E Culver St., Phoenix.

The core of this concert is I Never Saw Another Butterfly, a collection of poems by children of Terezin concentration camp. All the pieces on the program set poems from this collection to music, exhibiting different artistic interpretations to the same texts. The concert features works by Lori Laitman, Ellwood Derr, Srul Irving Glick, and Arie Shapira, with performances by Keith Kelly (saxophones), Alexander Duke (cello), Ashley Oakley (piano), and Lindsay Stillwell (voice).

Free admission.

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