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Pacific Opera Victoria
Likht Ensemble Residency (Recital & Artist Talks)
October 2023
Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company
The Shoah Songbook Parts 4 & 5
January 27, 2024
“With recurring motifs of springtime, dreams, suffering, and lost love, beautiful melodies are a vehicle for biting irony and devastating truth. This musical journey is a revealing snapshot of the inner creative life of Jews detained in these Lithuanian camps: their hopes, tragedies, and above all their defiant engagement with life itself.”
— Lynn Slotkin, The Slotkin Letter
Latest News
THE SCOOP | Association For Opera In Canada Announces Finalists For New Works Pitch Pittsburgh
The Association for Opera in Canada (AOC) has announced the finalists for the 2023 edition of the New Canadian Works Pitch Program, funded by the Azrieli Foundation. The program gives the participants an opportunity to pitch their works to potential collaborators at the Opera America Conference, including producers, co-producers, co-commissioners and presenters.
The Likht Ensemble Tells The Story Of “The Shoah Songbook”
Likht Ensemble joins Ray Bassett on “Scenic Roots” on WUTC 88.1 to discuss their upcoming Shoah Songbook recitals in collaboration with the Chattanooga Public Libraries and the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera. The two upcoming recitals feature rarely performed music composed by Jewish artists during the Holocaust, heard in Chattanooga for the first time this week.
The Oasis welcomes performers from
“Bas Sheve” ahead of it’s North
American Premiere
Mark Wigmore, host of The Oasis on The New Classical FM, welcomed performers to discuss the North American premiere of Bas-Sheve - the first Yiddish Opera performed in Canada. The concert style performance is presented as part of the Ashkenaz Festival with support from Yiddish Summer Weimar and the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience.
Watch the Shoah Songbook
Part Three: Poland
The Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company presents The Shoah Songbook Part Three with Likht Ensemble’s Jaclyn Grossman and Nate Ben-Horin alongside guest violinist Aaron Schwebel. In this concert, Likht Ensemble explores the music of Poland, sharing repertoire by Polish composers and from the Kraków and Łódź ghettos. The recital is part of a series sharing rarely performed music by Jewish composers from the Holocaust.
