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April 21, 2009

Holocaust Remembrance Day

There are at least six million stories of suffering and death from the Holocaust. Many composers were among the victims. Their names might be unfamiliar to you: Marcel Tyberg, Leo Smit, Pavel Haas (pictured), Erwin Schulhoff, Viktor Ullmann. We'll always wonder what might have been, had they survived. Today, on Yom Hashoah, we'll feature music by victims of the Holocaust.

Today's Playlist



hour 1

  • Leo Smit
    String Quartet
    Violinists Jacobien Rozemond and Marijke van Kooten, violist Edith van Moergastel, and cellist Doris Hochscheid
  • Pavel Haas
    Second movement from Wind Quintet, Op. 10
    The Imani Winds
    Maud Mood Weyerhaeuser Music Studio, St. Paul, Minnesota
  • Marcel Tyberg
    Symphony No. 3
    The Buffalo Philharmonic with conductor JoAnn Falletta
    Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, New York

hour 2

  • Viktor Ullmann
    First movement from Sonata No. 6, Op. 49
    Pianist Edith Kraus
  • Samuel Barber
    Adagio for Strings
    The Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
    Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Denver
  • Lawrence Siegel
    Excerpts from "Kaddish"
    VocalEssence Ensemble Singers and Chorus with soprano Maria Jette, alto Krista Palmquist, tenor Jason Collins, baritone James Bohn, and conductor Philip Brunelle
    Ted Mann Concert Hall, Minneapolis
  • Ervin Schulhoff
    Andante from Five Pieces for String Quartet
    The Jose White String Quartet
    Spivey Hall, Morrow, Georgia
  • Erwin Schulhoff
    Two movements from Five Jazz Etudes
    Pianist Sarah Rothenberg
    The Menil Collection, Houston
  • Ernest Bloch
    "Prayer," for Cello and Strings
    Cellist Ladislav Szathmary with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Mario Kosik
    Slovak Radio, Bratislava, Slovakia
  • Steve Reich
    Double Sextet
    eighth blackbird with members of the Oberlin College Contemporary Music Ensemble
    Finney Chapel, Oberlin, Ohio
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