Music Before the Film

Augustana music faculty will perform a selection of works before the showing of the "Defiant Requiem." The 2012 documentary tells the story of the Nazi concentration camp Terezin, where inmates fought back with art and music.

Performers will include Michelle Crouch, soprano; Deborah Dakin, viola; Janina Ehrlich, cello; and Robert Elfline, piano.

Program

Max Janowsky
(1912 Berlin, Germany-1991 Hyde Park, Ill.)
Avinu Malkenu for Viola and Piano (1967)

Zikmund Schul
(1916 Chemnitz, Germany-1944 Therezín)
Two Chassidic Dances, Op. 15 (1941/42)
I Allegro moderato
II Allegretto

Erwin Schulhoff
(1894 Prague, Czechoslovakia-1942 Wülzburg concentration camp)
Sonata for Cello and Piano (1914)
II Langsam und getragen

Gideon Klein
(1919 Pferov, Czechoslavakia-1945 Therezín/Auschwitz)
Sonata for Piano (1943)
II Adagio

Srul Irving Glick
(1934 Toronto, Canada-2002 Toronto, Canada)
i never saw another butterfly
I To Olga
II The Butterfly

The Lloyd M. Burstein Memorial Holocaust Film Series continues April 9 with "Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War."