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Beautiful music by Fryderyk Chopin and composers who survived the Holocaust in tribute to people who performed extraordinary acts of courage in defense of human dignity during World War II and Holocaust. The evening will begin with an exhibition, followed by a film with historical footage and a concert featuring outstanding artists from Canada, Poland and Ukraine.

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Memory Brings Us Together Classical Music Concert

Kaufman Music Center

California has been blessed with an abundance of great composers. The film industry has magnetized many European emigres to resettle in the Golden State. Composers Miklós Rósza (Hungary) and Alexandre Tansman (Poland) were both Jewish and escaped Europe as the Second World War was brewing. They both benefitted from work in Hollywood. John Williams and Danny Elfman are both prolific film composers. Los Angeles-born Viet Cuong, who now resides in Orange County, is Pacific Symphony’s composer-in-residence.
Enjoy delightful chamber music with host and pianist Orli Shaham and principal musicians of Pacific Symphony in the coffee-house atmosphere of the Samueli Theater.

California Connections

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

This eclectic program celebrates both a beloved instrument and classical music’s most rigorous contrapuntal form. Arguably the king of musical innovators, Joseph Haydn took from the past and created the future, as in his Opus 20 Quartet which begins with a cello solo (a historical first) and concludes with a lively fugue that could have come straight from the pen of J.S. Bach. From cellist-composers Luigi Boccherini and Michael Finckel (David Finckel’s cousin) to the Frenchman Alexandre Tansman and the Russian Aleksandr Glazunov, we will hear cellos throughout this concert in delightful combinations, even cello quartets, with exhilarating fugues popping up unexpectedly.

Alexandre Tansman

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Oct 28, 2023

Memory Brings Us Together Classical Music Concert · Kaufman Music Center

Feb 12, 2023

California Connections · Segerstrom Center For The Arts

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