Unburied: Music of the Holocaust

Veretski Pass and clarinetist Joel Rubin will give a lecture/concert of the music of the Holocaust combined with Jewish music that was thought to have been destroyed. They will explore the Nazi’s use of music as propaganda, show examples of what was outlawed as “degenerate music” and demonstrate various ways in which music was used in the camps, even including music that was used to escort prisoners to the gas chambers. Integrated throughout the presentation they will present their own music - an exploration of the centuries of musical interactions between Jews and Ukrainians, concentrating on music that was considered lost until only recently.

Much of the material accesses materials in the Kiselgof-Makonovetsky Digital Manuscript Project - a huge treasure trove of sheet music that has only recently been made widely available from Kiev, and which Veretski Pass and Joel Rubin have been instrumental in organizing and disseminating.

In addition…