LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) — The San Diego Center for Jewish Culture in partnership with the Anti-Defamation League present the documentary Defiant Requiem. The movie will be shown in the David & Dorothea Garfield Theater at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus (4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla) on Thursday, March 12 at 7 p.m.
When it comes to Holocaust documentaries, some people think they have heard it all. But until you have heard the music made by the survivors at Terezin, you haven’t heard a thing. The unyielding power of music (in this case, Verdi’s “Messa de Requiem”) gave a group of Jewish prisoners the strength to go on. Memorizing it from one single score, and performing it as a chorus 16 times during their internment, the requiem gave the prisoners a tool for defiance, and a reason to persevere. Defiant Requiem lets us see through the eyes, words, actions, and music of those who were there how to fight back through art and spiritual strength.
The program will include a discussion with special guest Maestro Murry Sidlin, President and Founder of The Defiant Requiem Foundation.
For additional information, please contact Susan Hagler at (858) 362-1150 or susanh@lfjcc.org.
*
Preceding provided by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture
Price: $9.50; JCC Member Price-$6.50. Please call the box office for member discount at (858) 362-1348.
http://tickets.lfjcc.org/orderticketsarea.asp?p=2015&a=70&src=