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Our Will to Live: Terezín 1944 • music • art • drama
Symphony Hall, Boston • November 11 • Veteran's Day
Symphony Hall, Boston • November 11 • Veteran's Day
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ANDRIS NELSONS conducted Boston Symphony Orchestra members performing the Overture for Small Orchestra by Terezín composer Hans Krása (Terezín 1943-44)
NORMAN EISEN, former U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic, accepted the 2019 Terezín Legacy Award, presented by George Krupp.
George Krupp, left, with TMF Executive Director Mark Ludwig
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ANNETTE MILLER performed Terezín composer Viktor Ullmann’s dramatic setting of Rainer Maria Rilke’s wartime prose poem, “The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke” (Terezín 1944), with pianist Vytas Baksys and magnificent original sets by painter Daniel Ludwig.
ANDRÉ PREVIN'S 2018 TMF commission, Quintet for Horn and String Quartet — one of the maestro’s last works — was performed by members of the BSO in its American premiere.
"Our will to create was commensurate with our will to live." — Terezín composer Viktor Ullmann |
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Photos by Michael J. Lutch
