ConcertLEzing in Synagoge Tempel Emeth (New Jersey, VS) .

Met werken van Rosy Wertheim, Dick Kattenburg, Henriette Bosmans en Leo Smit.

Carol Shansky - fluit | Amber Liao - piano.

Voices Lost: Music of Dutch Composers Suppressed in the Holocaust, is a concert-lecture that looks at music written by Dutch composers in the years just before the occupation of Amsterdam by the Nazis. Those who were not sent to camps went into hiding and still composed or sponsored concert evenings to support music making despite the Nazis ban. In some cases, the music performed on this program was one of the last by that composer.

Dutch composers are in general not well known in history, nor is the music being written at that time familiar to many. This concert exposes to the listener the kinds of approaches that Dutch composers were using in writing and gives us a chance to hear some wonderful music that otherwise would have remained unfamiliar to us.

The format of this concert is that of a lecture-recital. Carol Shansky will give background on each of the composers, their lives, and experiences in addition to performing selections of their music. Composers included are Rosy Wertheim, Henriette Bosmans, Dick Kattenburg and Leo Smit. Carol Shansky on flute is joined by pianist Amber Liao, with whom she has performed this program at the Holocaust Center at Kean University as well as at several academic conferences.

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