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We Were Alive, Approximately
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: 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…
