In his remarkable book, The Inextinguishable Symphony, Martin Goldsmith tells the true story of his parents who were members of Berlin’s all-Jewish orchestra, and Nazi propaganda tool, the Jüdischer Kulturbund. The book inspired the making of a film, Winter Journey, which in turn inspired this concert. The program features works for winds and piano and includes composers whose voices were silenced as victims of the Holocaust, as well as works performed by the Jüdischer Kulturbund.
Tara Helen O’Connor,
flute
James Austin Smith,
oboe
Alan Kay,
clarinet
Marc Goldberg,
bassoon
David Byrd-Marrow,
horn
Shai Wosner,
piano
Leo Smit (1900–1943)
Sextet for Piano and Wind Quintet (1933)
Pavel Haas (1899–1944)
Suite for Oboe and Piano, Op. 17 (1939)
Erwin Schulhoff (1894–1942)
Divertissement for Oboe, Clarinet, and Bassoon (1927)
Gideon Klein (1919–1944)
Wiegenlied (Lullaby) (1943)
Thuille (1861–1907)
Sextet for Piano and Wind Quintet in B-flat major, Op. 6 (1888)
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