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Join us for a pre-concert lecture with Murry Sidlin\, the creator of Defiant Requiem\, on Monday\, March 3 at 2:15pm in Hamilton Recital Hall. \;
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Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezí\;n
Murry Sidlin\, Creator &\; Narrator (Rafi)
Lawrence Golan\, Conductor &\; Narrator
Tatiana Mayfield Brown\, Actor (Lecturer)
Rhoslyn Jones\, Soprano\; Heidi Melton\, Mezzo Soprano\; Matthew Plenk\, Tenor\; Jonathan Lasch\, Bass
Damien Krzyzek\, Piano
Lamont Choirs
Colorado Hebrew Chorale
Co-sponsored by the Holocaust Awareness Institute at the Center for Judaic Studies.
The signature concert of The Defiant Requiem Foundation\, \;Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezí\;n\, tells the story of the courageous Jewish prisoners in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp (Terezí\;n) during World War II who performed Verdi&rsquo\;s Requiem while experiencing the depths of human degradation. With only a single smuggled score\, they performed the celebrated oratorio sixteen times\, including one performance before senior SS officials from Berlin and an International Red Cross delegation. Conductor Rafael Schä\;chter told the choir\, &ldquo\;We will sing to the Nazis what we cannot say to them.&rdquo\;
Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezí\;n \;is a concert-drama that was conceived and created by Foundation President\, Maestro Murry Sidlin. It combines the magnificent music of Verdi with video testimony from survivors of the original Terezí\;n chorus and footage from the 1944 Nazi propaganda film about Theresienstadt. The performance also includes actors who speak the words of imprisoned conductor Rafael Schä\;chter and others.
Defiant Requiem \;is not just a performance of the Verdi Requiem\, but a tribute to the inspired leadership of Rafael Schä\;chter who was forced to reconstitute the choir three times as members were transported to Auschwitz. The performances came to symbolize resistance and defiance and demonstrated the prisoners&rsquo\; courage to confront the worst of mankind with the best of mankind. \;Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezí\;n \;is powerful\, dramatic and inspirational.
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For ticket questions\, please contact the Newman Center Box Office at 303-871-7720.
For all other Lamont questions\, please call 303-871-6400.
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