Wanted to share this with you from one of the participating artists in The Jüdische Kulturbund Project:

Hobart Earle, the conductor of the Odessa Philharmonic, will be streaming a free concert on Sunday, August 16 at 1pm ET. www.odessaphil.org/en

The concert is Weinberg’s Symphony No. 21 ( “Kaddish” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._21_(Weinberg) performed on January 27, 2020 – “International Holocaust Memorial Day”, the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Weinberg dedicated this powerful, highly emotional piece of music “to the memory of the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto” (including, tragically, Weinberg’s own family) .

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