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Wednesday March 6, 2013
7:30PM - - -
Washington Jewish Music Festival Presents the Film: Defiant Requiem
Category :: Movie
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Tickets: $11
Dir. Doug Shultz (85min, Czech Republic/USA, 2012). Partisan Pictures.
Documentary
Featuring Music Director Murry Sidlin in person
Emmy-winner Bebe Neuwirth narrates the little-known story of a group of Theresienstadt prisoners who bravely organize a powerful form of musical resistance. Under the leadership of imprisoned conductor Rafael Schächter, a group of over 150 inmates performed Verdi’s Requiem – a song of death reimagined as a message of hope and justice – in front of the Nazi high command.
Dir. Doug Shultz (85min, Czech Republic/USA, 2012). Partisan Pictures.
Documentary
Featuring Music Director Murry Sidlin in person
Emmy-winner Bebe Neuwirth narrates the little-known story of a group of Theresienstadt prisoners who bravely organize a powerful form of musical resistance. Under the leadership of imprisoned conductor Rafael Schächter, a group of over 150 inmates performed Verdi’s Requiem – a song of death reimagined as a message of hope and justice – in front of the Nazi high command.
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