Sunday, April 7, 2013

Defiant Requiem: Voices of Resistance 4/07/13


Conductor Murry Sidlin leads a performance of Verdi's "Requiem" at the former Nazi concentration camp of Terezin, where Czech conductor Rafael Schachter and other inmates performed it in 1944 before Nazi officers and the International Red Cross. Interspersed throughout: archival film, prisoner's artwork, survivor recollections and dramatic reenactments.