New this year, enjoy the opportunity to engage with our clergy during two different time blocks on Yom Kippur afternoon. Learn more about the 2024/5785 High Holy Days season here. 12:30-1:15 p.m. Defiant Requiem Preview Cantor Leslie Niren and Ben Loeb Nafshi Y’shoveiv, My Restored Soul Rabbi Debra Robbins The enduring words of Psalm 23...
This 45-minute documentary highlights the story of Rafael Schächter, a brilliant and courageous young Czech conductor who was arrested and sent to Terezín in 1941. He taught Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem to 150 prisoners, who then performed it 16 times for Terezín prisoners as an unspoken work of defiance against the Nazis. The film includes testimony...
In preparation for ”Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín" on April 23, we invite you to immerse yourself in the music composed in Europe in the years leading up to World War II, including music by composers who would be imprisoned at Terezín. This concert is presented by Defiant Requiem conductor Ben Loeb, Defiant Requiem soprano...
Delve deeper into the history of Terezin, the choice of the Verdi Requiem as the text of cultural resistance, and the vision behind the multi-media production “Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín." Explore the history of Terezín and the role of cultural resistance in uplifting morale and preserving the prisoners’ humanity in unimaginable circumstances. Presented by...
Delve deeper into the history of Terezin, the choice of the Verdi Requiem as the text of cultural resistance, and the vision behind the multi-media production “Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín." Explore the text and meaning of Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem and learn about Rafael Schächter and his choristers. Presented by Galit Gertsenzon, Ph.D., an expert...
Delve deeper into the history of Terezin, the choice of the Verdi Requiem as the text of cultural resistance, and the vision behind the multi-media production “Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín." Discover the history of “Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín” production in a conversation with Maestro Murry Sidlin, founder and president of The Defiant Requiem...
Experience the power of music as spiritual resistance in this concert drama about the performance of the Verdi Requiem by Jewish prisoners at Theresienstadt Concentration Camp (Terazín) during World War II. Presented on Yom HaShoah and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Terazín, this Dallas premiere features video and testimony by Terezin choir members...
