Words, Music, Memory: (Re)presenting Voices from the Holocaust

Sheena Ramirez, soprano
Courtney Miller, oboe and English horn
Suzanne Polak, piano

with commentary from
Adina Langer (Curator, Kennesaw State University Museum of History and Holocaust Education) and Dr. Laurence Sherr (Composer)

This lecture recital centers around the idea of commemoration. Commemoration is a process that involves witness, preservation, interpretation, and performance. This process calls upon human creativity, commitment, emotional connection, and contemporary context. Focusing on music based on the words of young people who witnessed the Holocaust—many of whom did not survive—the performance uses the power of music to bridge generations in active commemoration. These themes are shared with the exhibit Words, Music, Memory: Re(presenting) Voices of the Holocaust, on display in the atrium outside of Tew Recital Hall.

This performance is made possible by support from the Arts Council of Greensboro, the UNCG Jewish Studies Department, and the UNCG School of Music.