TEREZIN MUSIC FOUNDATION
  • Who We Are
    • Our Mission & Work
    • Founder/Director
    • Board
  • Concerts & Tours
    • Concert Films
    • Tours
  • Commissions
    • Complete list of commissions
    • Commission Programs
    • Commissions Advisory Council
    • Sponsor a TMF Commission
  • Education
    • Lectures
    • Curriculum Guide
    • Master classes
    • TMF Educator Anna Ornstein
    • TMF Educator Edgar Krasa, in memoriam
  • Listen
    • Our Will to Live: Music Tracks
    • TMF Music on CD >
      • "Previn Plays Previn" CD
      • Viktor Kalabis CD
  • Connect
    • Join our mailing list
    • Programs Suggestions
    • Press
    • TMF Staff
    • Volunteer
  • Donate
    • Donate
    • Sponsor a TMF Commission
    • Raise funds
    • Volunteer

TMF CURRICULUM GUIDE • "Finding a voice: musicians in terezín"


Picture
This 45-page illustrated soft-cover curriculum guide with CD is produced and published by Terezín Music Foundation with Facing History and Ourselves. The painting on the cover is by artist Samuel Bak. "Finding a Voice" is available in print from TMF; please contact us.

CONTENTS
Preface by TMF Executive Director Mark Ludwig
Foreword by Facing History and Ourselves Director Margot Stern Strom
Overview of the CD: An Annotated Guide
(The CD presents works by Hans Krasa, Gideon Klein, Viktor Ullmann, and Pavel Haas)

Readings:
Religion, Race, and Identity
Building a "Racial State"
Raacial Purity and Degenerate Music
Art and Politics
Confronting the "Big Lie"

Responding to the CD:
Readings keyed to the music on the CD
Terezin: A Paradox
A Statement of Faith
"A Living Message"
Expressing Outrage
Across Boundaries

Reflections
This section adds new voices and stories to discussions sparked by the CD.

Additional Resources
DOWNLOAD THE CURRICULUM GUIDE HERE:
tmf_curriculum_guide.pdf
File Size: 2129 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File


PLAY THE MUSIC THAT ACCOMPANIES THE GUIDE:

​(The following tracks accompany the text. Performances are by the Hawthorne String Quartet: Si-Jing Huang, violin; Ronan Lefkowitz, violin; Mark Ludwig, viola; Sato Knudsen, cello. CD Produced by Mark Ludwig, Terezin Music Foundation Executive Director.)
Links to Reading 4 — Art and Politics
I. Excerpts from Solo Piano Works
Written and performed by Ervin Schulhoff in Berlin in 1928.
Rag Music/Partita
Links to Reading 6 — Terezin: A Paradox
​II. Excerpts from Passacaglia and Fugue for String Trio by Hans Krasa
Links to Reading 8 — "A Living Message"
III. Excerpts from Trio for String instruments, Movement No. 2, by Gideon Klein
Links to Reading 9 — Expressing Outrage
IV. Excerpts from String Quartet No. 3 by Viktor Ullmann
Links to Reading 10 — Across Boundaries
V. Excerpts from String Quartet No. 2 by Pavel Haas
This is the complete list of tracks to accompany "Finding a Voice: Musicians in Terezin." You can hear more music from and inspired by Terezin here.
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.