Music in Desperate Times

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Alice Radosh is the project director of "Music In Desperate Times: Remembering The Women's Orchestra of Birkenau." It’s based on memoirs and histories of survivors of the only women's orchestra to play in WWII concentration camps. The concert will recreate the unusual instrumentation of the orchestra: violins, mandolins, accordion, recorder, flute, cello, piano and percussion on March 28th at The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine. The story is told through readings, choral music and representative orchestral music played in the camps.

Event
Music In Desperate Times
at The Cathedral of Saint John The Divine
1047 Amsterdam Avenue at 112th Street
Saturday, March 28th at 8pm
Ticket info here or at 866.811.4111

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