Music Drama of the Holocaust

Join us for a contemporary performance presenting the final work for stage by Jewish artists in the Terezín/Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Amid the unimaginable conditions of the camp, composers, instrumentalists, opera singers, and actors maintained a spiritual resistance by continuing their artistic endeavors. They sang opera and organized classical and popular music concerts. This program features a monodrama (a drama written for one actor) performed by ethnomusicologist Philip Bohlman, as well as compositions by Viktor Ullman, performed by pianist Christine Wilkie Bohlman. Ullman was among the Jewish composers interned and ultimately murdered at Theresienstadt. Clinging to life, yet facing almost certain death, these Jewish artists expressed their creative genius and left this precious and tragic legacy for humankind.

Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Melton Center for Jewish Studies.