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Arts & Entertainment Music

Powerful ‘Defiant Requiem’ Revisits Verdi in Terezin

June 4, 2017June 6, 2017 Philippa Kiraly defiant requiem, Rafael Schaecter, Seattle Jewish Chorale, terezin, University of Washington School of Music, verdi

Cover image: Soloists Arianna Zukerman and Ann McMahon Quintero perform the Agnus Dei from Verdi’s Requiem as footage from the

Arts & Entertainment Music Theatre

“Emperor of Atlantis” Opera is a Work to Hear More than Once

November 18, 2012November 18, 2012 Philippa Kiraly chamber opera, emperor of atlantis, erich parce, holocaust, jonathan silvia, music of remembrance, opera, peter kien, terezin, victor benedetti, viktor ullmann

Musically, it’s a work to hear more than once. Ullman’s score includes hints of other composers and a couple of intentionally outright borrowings, though in unusual guise. When the Drummer proclaims the Emperor’s killing plans, she does so to the tune of “Deutschland uber alles,” albeit in a minor key, and at the end, the actors converge on the Emperor to the melody of “Ein feste berg” but with different harmonies.

Arts & Entertainment Dance

At Spectrum, Donald Byrd Gives “Needless Talents” Human Faces

October 26, 2012October 26, 2012 Michael van Baker cabaret, Crystal Pite, donald byrd, erwin schulhoff, holocaust, Kidd PIvot, On the Boards, shakespeare, spectrum dance, terezin, the tempest replica

To bring this back down to earth, consider choreographer Donald Byrd’s statement that, with The Theater of Needless Talents, he wanted to get into how particular humans keep finding ways to commit atrocities against humanity. Rather than totalizing Nazi power, buying into the Reich’s myth, his work, iconoclastic as ever, breaks it into pieces.