april 2020 • students perform and learn
APRIL PRAGUE CONCERTS RELEASE
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UPDATE: March 12
Brookline High School students will no longer participate in the events below; their trip has been cancelled in order to protect their health and that of others during the Coronavirus pandemic. We are immensely grateful to BHS Director of Choirs Michael Driscoll and BHS Orchestra Conductor Nina Bishop for the administrative and creative talents they brought to these plans — and to the students for embracing this adventure and studying the history and music of Terezín. We hope to learn and perform together at another time very soon!
In April 2020, eighty-eight members of the Brookline High School Camerata Choir and Orchestra visit Terezín with TMF, and the Choir performs three TMF concerts in Prague and Terezín.

TMF is honored to provide this deeply meaningful experience for these talented young artists, as part of our ongoing Holocaust education programs in the U.S. and around the world.

The BHS Camerata Choir will perform three concerts:

Yom Hashoah Memorial and Concert
April 20, 2020 at the Jerusalem Synagogue, Prague

Produced by TMF and sponsored by TMF and the Jewish Community of Prague. Performing alongside BHS Camerata Choir is PUNKT, of the Prague Conservatoire.
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Rabbi William Hamilton joins Rabbi David Peter, Chief Rabbi Prague and of the Jerusalem Synagogue, to open the concert program with candle-lighting.
CONCERT PROGRAM
Welcome by Mark Ludwig, followed by Candle-lighting
  • Ilse Weber. “Wiegala, Wiegala” Terezín 1943. BHS
  • Sivan Eldar. “The Song About the Child.” Poem by Agi Mishol, Israel. BHS
  • David L. Post. “The Day of Light.” Poem by Ernesto Santana, Cuba. PUNKT
  • Jeremiah Klarman. “Does Grace.” Poem by Almog Behar, Israel. PUNKT
  • Pablo Ortiz. “Leaving Limerick in the Rain.” Poem by Richard Blanco, Cuban-American. PUNKT
  • Elaine Agnew.“Regreen.” Poem by Justin Quinn, Ireland. PUNKT
  • Gideon Klein. Lullaby. Terezín 1943. BHS & PUNKT
  • Oseh Shalom, Prayer for Peace. BHS & PUNKT

concert at the u.s. embassy american center
celebrating czech-american cultural exchange
april 23, 2020

A joint program of the U.S. Embassy in the Czech Republic and TMF. Produced by TMF.

The BHS Camerata Choir performs music by Czech and American artists, including Gideon Klein and George Gershwin. The evening also includes the opening of an exhibition of glass sculptures by acclaimed Czech glass artist Petr Hora (see his sculpture at left).

AT TEREZÍN, April 22

The BHS Camerata Choir and Orchestra will receive an exclusive guided tour and hear a talk by TMF Executive Director Mark Ludwig, and the Choir will perform music from Terezín.