UAA musicians collaborating with Anchorage Concert Chorus for 'Defiant Requiem' performances
by Michelle Saport |
Defiant Requiem - Verdi at Terezin
Friday, April 8, 8 p.m. / Sunday, April 10, 4 p.m.
Atwood Concert Hall (Alaska Center for the Performing Arts, 621 W. 6th Ave.)
The UAA Department of Music, in collaboration with the Anchorage Concert Chorus and Orchestra, will perform the Defiant Requiem -- a multi-media concert combining music, drama and film footage that memorializes and celebrates the prisoners of Thereseinstadt (Terezin), a WWII concentration camp. Here the prisoners learned (without the aid of sheet music) and performed the Verdi Requiem 16 times -- singing to their Nazi captors what they could not speak: their outrage, their condemnation of the captors and their call for justice. The UAA University Singers and Sinfonia along with many of the department's faculty will join forces with the Anchorage Concert Chorus, Orchestra and professional soloists. The Defiant Requiem creator, Murry Sidlin, will travel to Anchorage to guest conduct.
Tickets are available at CenterTix.net. Part of Defy Fear! Week 2016.
Music of Remembrance: A Defiant Requiem Collaboration Saturday, April 9, 7:30 p.m. Fine Arts Building, Room 150
In conjunction with Defy Fear! Week, UAADepartment of Music faculty will perform selected pieces from four different European composers each shaped by the events of World World II: a Dutch Jew, Leo Smit; a French Catholic, Oliver Messiaean; an Italian Jew, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco; and an enigmatic Soviet, Dmitri Shostakovich. Tickets are available at UAATix.com.
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