http://www.wctv.tv/news/floridanews/headlines/Leon-High-School-Students-Learn-About-Music-From-The-Holocaust-257823691.html

http://www.wctv.tv/community/headlines/Leon-High-School-Hosts-Free-Holocaust-Education-Event-257397341.html

http://blogs.tallahassee.com/community/2014/04/28/holocaust-programs-bring-learning-to-life-for-leon-county-students/

Sharon, Max, Caitlin and Leon HIgh School history teacher Erica Sears at Music in the Holocaust Residency, Tallahassee Florida May 2014

The trio plays works written in the concentration camp for Cobb Middle School students, Tallahassee, May 2014

The Role of Music in the Holocaust

ClassNotes Residency at Leon County Schools April 28-May 2, 2014

ClassNotes concert for the community May 3, 2014

Brundibar Opera June 6 and 7, 2014

This is a joint partnership between ClassNotes, Leon High School and Cobb Middle School in Tallahassee, Florida.

Three live musicians (Sharon Roffman, violin, Max Mandel, viola and Caitlin Sullivan, cello) will visit the history classes of Leon County High School for one intensive week and present lessons on the varied roles of music during the Holocaust.  From its use by the Nazis as a method of torture and propaganda, to resistance fighters using songs as a clandestine way to deliver messages, to musicians prisoners performing concerts and writing new music in the camps, music had a huge presence in everyday life.  Ultimately for most it became a profound and necessary outlet to express emotions and preserve humanity in the face of extraordinary violence and discrimination.  Through interactive games and exercises with the students, the musicians will explore the idea of music as a means of expression, communication, developing empathy and combating bullying.  The musicians will also work with the orchestra and chorus in master classes and workshops.

A final concert on May 3 will conclude the residency, open to the community at large, which will feature performances by the trio, the school chorus and the school orchestra, featuring music that was written and performed in the concentration camps.

On June 6 and 7, Cobb Middle School will present a staged production of Brundibar, a children’s opera by Jewish Czech composer Hans Krasa, which was originally performed by the children of Theresienstadt concentration camp in occupied Czechoslovakia.  ClassNotes violinist Sharon Roffman will lead the pit orchestra comprised of Leon students.  One of the original children who performed the opera at Terezin, concentration camp survivor Ela Stein Weissburger, will come to work with the students and share her story.

Wednesday, June 12 at 4 pm
Hudson Guild
441 West 26th Street (at Tenth Avenue) | Manhattan
212-760-9837
hudsonguild.org
Click here for more info on this concert.

Pelham Arts Center and ClassNotes, with support from ArtsWestchester, present Global Cultures; Storytelling through Music, a one-hour concert performed at Pelham Arts Center by the professional musicians of ClassNotes, featuring works created by composers to reflect aspects of their native or adopted land.  This concert culminates a one-week residency at Hutchinson Elementary School in Pelham, in which ClassNotes’ artists will work intensively with the entire third grade, exploring six composers, their origins, and how they used music to describe and illustrate their environment.  The concert will feature performances by ClassNotes’ musicians interspersed with commentary and explanation from Hutchinson third graders, as well as two collaborations for the third grade singers and string quartet.  This project is being made possible by the Arts Partners Challenge Grant program of ARTSWESTCHESTER, with funding from the AIE Local Capacity Building Program of the New York State Council on the Arts.

Sharon Roffman, violin
Nurit Pacht, violin
Jessica Meyer, viola
Caitlin Sullivan, cello
Benjamin Fingland, clarinet
Rami Vamos, guitar

Program:

Quartet in c minor, Opus. 18 No. 4
Ludwig von Beethoven  (1770-1827)
First movement – Allegro ma non tanto

“Spring” from the Four Seasons
Antonio Vivaldi   (1678-1741)
First movement – Allegro

Evocations de Slovakie, Night
Karel Husa  (1921-)

Stockbridge Mohican Song
Brent Michael Davids  (1959- )

Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind.
Osvaldo Golijov   (1960-)

Quintet for Guitar and Strings, Fandago
Luigi Boccherini  (1743-1805)