BCC Remembers Holocaust Composers

by Dr. TK
SUSIE DAVIDSON Holocaust survivor Michael Gruenbaum (far right) joins the Boston Children’s Chorus for a rendition of “Brundibar,” which he sang in 1943.

Khizr Khan Honored at Boston Commemoration of Holocaust Composers

Khizr Khan received the 2017 Terezín Legacy Award at Boston’s Symphony Hall on Oct. 15 during “Do Not Forget Me,” a musical tribute to composers Gideon Klein, Pavel Haas, Viktor Ullmann, Hans Krása and Ilse Weber. The five, who perished in the Holocaust, were among the artistic community imprisoned at the Terezín concentration camp outside of Prague. Their songs, poems, operas and chamber music, created under unimaginable duress, were largely recovered by the Boston-based Terezín Music Foundation.

Khizr Khan received the 2017 Terezín Legacy Award at Boston’s Symphony Hall on Oct. 15 during “Do Not Forget Me,” a musical tribute to composers Gideon Klein, Pavel Haas, Viktor Ullmann, Hans Krása and Ilse Weber. The five, who perished in the Holocaust, were among the artistic community imprisoned at the Terezín concentration camp outside of Prague. Their songs, poems, operas and chamber music, created under unimaginable duress, were largely recovered by the Boston-based Terezín Music Foundation.

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