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The TMF 2015 Top 10

Thank you for a very rewarding and meaningful year!


Every donation or moment of support you give — whether it is your work as an ambassador spreading your excitement about TMF or your help as a concert volunteer — honors the Terezin artists and all the voices lost in the Holocaust, and helps demonstrate the power of art to defy oppression. Here are just a few of the great things you helped us do in 2015:
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1.
​Publication of Liberation: New Works on Freedom from Internationally Renowned Poets, honoring the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi camps.   
This anthology of TMF-commissioned poems was praised by the Dalai Lama, who said it "will serve as an inspiration to the present and future generations." It was also lauded by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who said it "presents a moving array of tributes to the resilience of the human spirit and humankind's yearning to be free."

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The sixty-three generous and committed poets
 who contributed to Liberation - Richard Blanco, Robert Pinsky, Mary Kimani and many others, plus novelist Ha Jin, who wrote the Foreword.
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The wonderful guests on our Prague Tour. 
It was a joy to experience Prague & Terezin together. Contact us for information for 2016!

7.
The world premiere by Coro Allegro of the TMF LiberArte commission by Pablo Ortiz, a setting of Richard Blanco's LiberArte poem. At Symphony Hall, Boston.
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U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove reading her TMF-Commissioned LiberArte poem on "Arts Beat," for PBS NewsHour.  Correspondent Jeffrey Brown interviewed Mark Ludwig and Ms. Dove about Liberation, TMF, and the meaning of freedom seventy years after the liberation of the camps.

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LiberArte premieres by the Boston Children's Chorus:
 superb choral settings of LiberArte poems performed in Prague's Spanish Synagogue.

5.
Maestro Andris Nelsons conducting members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra performing Gideon Klein's Partita for String Orchestra (Terezin 1944). At Symphony Hall, Boston. Jeremy Eichler gave this concert a glowing review in the Boston Globe, and wrote, "This foundation's mission, in short, grows more vital by the year."
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Survivor and TMF Educator Edgar Krasa joining us to teach Boston College students studying the role of the arts in the Third Reich.
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Education and collaboration: the outstanding contributions of survivor and TMF Educator Anna Ornstein,
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Jim Schantz, the Hawthorne String Quartet, and members of the BSO to TMF education programs throughout the U.S.  
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One highlight was the HSQ performing Erwin Schulhoff's Concerto for Solo String Quartet and Wind Chamber Orchestra, with Symphoria in Syracuse, New York.

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Our continued collaboration with the Omaha Symphony this year featured the ​HSQ joining the orchestra to perform the TMF commission by Clint Needham conducted by Thomas Wilkins.

10.
Gideon Klein's music continues to move us at every performance. 
Mark Ludwig was honored to perform Klein's "Lullaby" at two Yom Hashoah commemorations this year.
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At the Boston-wide Yom Hashoah commemoration at Faneuil Hall
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The TMF Yom Hashoah commemoration with Temple Israel of Boston opened with candle-lighting and prayer with survivors and their families.

THANK YOU for a very rewarding and meaningful 2015!

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TEREZÍN MUSIC FOUNDATION  Executive Director Mark Ludwig
TMF is a non-profit organization dedicated to honoring the artist of Terezin with concerts, commissions, and programs in Holocaust education in Europe and the U.S.