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Farewell to Summer
2010 | mezzo-soprano/clarinet/piano 2018 | mezzo-soprano/clarinet and piano; tenor/clarinet/piano. 2018 | mezzo-soprano/violin/piano; tenor/violin/piano. 2019 | a duet option for mezzo-soprano and tenor/clarinet/piano was created for the oratorio. From the Vedem oratorio and Vedem Songs. Poem by Zdenek Ornest (aka “Orce”) (1929-1990). To purchase the mp3 of Angela Niederloh, Laura De Luca and Mina Miller performing this…
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Vedem excerpts, Music of Remembrance, 1.26.26
All videos below are from Music of Remembrance’s Art From Ashes concert 1.26.26 at Benaroya Recital Hall in Seattle, WA. Featuring the Northwest Boychoir with Jacob Winkler, Music Director; soprano Vanessa Isiguen; tenor Martin Bakari; clarinetist Laura DeLuca; violinist Mikhail Shmidt; cellist Eric Han and pianist Christina Valdés. Thanks to videographer Andrew Mayatskiy for the…
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Vedem
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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SOLO VEDEM SONGS
The following arrangements are available: Memories of Prague (to text of Petr Ginz) and Five (to text of Hanuš Hachenburg) , arranged for either tenor or mezzo-soprano with piano. Memories of Prague (for mezzo-soprano/piano), Five (for tenor/piano), and Farewell to Summer (mezzo-soprano/tenor duet with piano).
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Vedem Songs
2010: for mezzo-soprano and tenor with clarinet and piano; OR mezzo or tenor with clarinet and piano. 2018: Violin versions created. This six song cycle is drawn from the Vedem oratorio, commissioned by Music of Remembrance. Poems are by Petr Ginz (1928-1944), Hanuš Hachenburg (1929-1944), Zdeněk Ornest aka Orče (1929-1990), and Josef Taussig (1914-1945). Memories of…
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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…
