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Home Number One
2010 | Revised 2019 — boychoir/mezzo-soprano/tenor/clarinet/violin/cello and piano. Libretto by David Mason (b.1954). From the Vedem oratorio, commissioned by Mina Miller, Founder and Artistic Director and made possibly by a generous grant from the William O and K Carole Ellison Foundation. The work tells the story of the boys of Terezin and their secret magazine Vedem,…
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In Terezin The Mind Was Free
2010 | Revised 2019 — boychoir/mezzo-soprano/tenor/clarinet/violin/cello and piano. Libretto by David Mason (b.1954). From the Vedem oratorio, commissioned by Mina Miller, Founder and Artistic Director and made possibly by a generous grant from the William O and K Carole Ellison Foundation. The work tells the story of the boys of Terezin and their secret magazine Vedem,…
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Vedem Choral Cycle
2010 | Revised 2019 — boychoir/mezzo-soprano/tenor/clarinet/violin/cello and piano. Libretto by David Mason (b.1954). This short cycle for children’s chorus uses 3 songs (Home Number One, In Terezin The Mind Was Free and Vedem) from the Vedem oratorio, commissioned by Mina Miller, Founder and Artistic Director and made possibly by a generous grant from the William O…
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Vedem: A Holocaust Oratorio
2010 | Revised 2019 — boychoir/mezzo-soprano/tenor/clarinet/violin/cello and piano. The photo above is of the 4 survivors of the Boys of Terezin, Home #1, who wrote for the magazine, and who attended the Premiere in 2010. Pictured from left to right are Emil Kopel, Leo Lowy, Sidney Taussig and George Brady. Their story, and that of the…
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Naxos Releases Binders Full of Women Composers CD
Naxos has issued a new CD, Binders Full of Women Composers, (inspired, of course, by Mitt Romney’s 2012 debate remark) – and the CD includes an excerpt from Lori’s Holocaust oratorio, Vedem — Home Number One, to poetry by David Mason. This particular excerpt features the Northwest Boychoir, under the direction of Joseph Crnko, and…
