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curated programs Szymon and his wife in Nice, France, 1948 Image courtesy of André Laks family archive. Music of Another World: Szymon Laks, 1901–1983 In honour of Holocaust Education Week 2016, the ARC Ensemble (Artists of The Royal Conservatory) will present a concert with a focus on Laks’ delightful music and feature a pre-concert talk about the life and music of this gifted composer from HEW 2016 Artist-in-Residence Simon Wynberg, ARC Ensemble Artistic Director. The Grammy-nominated ARC Ensemble has become one of Canada’s pre-eminent cultural ambassadors. Its members are either senior faculty members of the Royal Conservatory’s Glenn Gould School or alumni with distinguished solo careers. The ARC Ensemble has performed in major venues throughout North America and Europe including appearances at the Budapest Spring Festival, New York’s Lincoln Center Festival, the Stratford Festival, the Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw, and notably, a commemorative concert in Dachau in 2015 which marked the 70th anniversary of the camp’s liberation. Its recordings and performances are broadcast around the world. The ARC Ensemble has earned an international reputation for its exploration and recovery of a vast amount of music that was lost or marginalized due to political suppression. Its “Music in Exile” series, dedicated to composers who were forced to flee Hitler’s Europe, has been mounted to great acclaim in Tel Aviv, Warsaw, Rome, Budapest, Toronto, New York and London, and a number of 20th century masterworks have rejoined the canon as a result of the ensemble’s initiatives. Its sixth recording, to be released on Chandos in Spring 2017, is devoted to the music of the Polish/French composer Szymon Laks (1901–1983), who survived Auschwitz and Dachau and settled in Paris after the war. ARC Ensemble: Marie Bérard and Erika Raum (violins), Steven Dann (viola), Winona Zelenka (cello), David Louie and Dianne Werner (pianos). CD signing to follow the program. Free admission; pre-registration is required. Reserve tickets by visiting musicofanotherworld.eventbrite.ca or by calling 905–771–5526. Co-sponsored by the Town of Richmond Hill. Sunday, 6 November | 7:30 PM Beit Rayim Synagogue and School at The Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts 10268 Yonge Street | Richmond Hill | 905–771–5526 Artist-in-Residence Neuberger HEW 2016 Artist-in-Residence Simon Wynberg has been the artistic director of the ARC Ensemble (Artists of the Royal Conservatory), the organization’s ensemblein-residence, since its establishment in 2002. He is responsible for its programming, touring, recording projects and overall development. He founded and directed the Scottish Festival, Music in Blair Atholl from 1990 to 2011 and was Artistic Director of Ontario’s Music at Speedside and the Guelph Spring Festival from 1994 to 2002. In tandem with his work for the ARC Ensemble, he lectures and writes on music under National Socialism, and is particularly involved in the research, performance and restitution of works by composers who were exiled and marginalized because of it. As a guitarist, his entry in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians describes him as “not only a virtuoso performer of distinction but one of the guitar’s foremost scholars” and his pioneering work in the field of guitar repertoire has introduced performers to a large body of hitherto unknown music. 20 Neuberger Holocaust Education Week
curated programs Image courtesy of USC Shoah Foundation. Personal Access to the ITS Archive Until 2007, the International Tracing Service (ITS), located in Bad Arolsen, Germany, was the largest closed Holocaust archive in the world. Established by the Allied powers after the war to help reunite families and trace missing family members, it holds millions of pages of documentation. The USHMM in Washington led an effort to open the archive to the public and remains the only North American access point for the 150 million documents. In a personal consultation with Diane Afoumado, you can access the archive to search your family history. Dr. Diane Afoumado is Chief of the Research and Reference Branch at the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. She specializes in Holocaust survivors’ and victims’ resources. An historian who specializes in Holocaust studies, Afoumado has taught history at the University of Paris and collaborated on several research projects, including one with renowned historian and attorney Serge Klarsfeld on the French internment camps. Between 10:00 am and 4:00 pm, Dr. Afoumado will offer individual consultations for people interested in accessing the ITS database. Appointments are limited; pre-registration is required at neuberger@ujafed.org or 416–635–2883 × 5153. Monday, 7 November | 10:00 AM–4:00 PM Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre UJA Federation of Greater Toronto Lipa Green Centre | 4600 Bathurst Street | Boardroom #3 Toronto | 416–635–2883 × 5153 Addressing Austria’s Past: Responsibility, Remembrance and Restitution Hannah Lessing, Secretary General of the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism, will explore both moral and legal dimensions of restitution. The National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism was established in 1995 in order to express Austria’s moral responsibility towards all victims of National Socialism. The Fund has been able to acknowledge the suffering of approximately 30,000 survivors with symbolic payments. In 2011, it was entrusted with coordinating the redesign of the new Austrian exhibition at the Auschwitz memorial and with administering the funds for the restoration of the Jewish cemeteries in Austria. The General Settlement Fund for Victims of National Socialism was established in order to comprehensively resolve open questions of compensation for victims. In a complex and elaborate procedure, the GSF has thus far disbursed approximately 212 million US dollars to more than 20,500 people and has almost completed its work. All payments disbursed by the funds are made in commemoration of the victims. Limited capacity; RSVP required to Bryan Jones at rsvp@airdberlis.com or 416–865–4745. Co-sponsored by Aird & Berlis and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Monday, 7 November | 12:00 PM Aird & Berlis LLP | Please RSVP for Location | 416–865–4745 The Future Of Holocaust Memory | P22 Neuberger Holocaust Education Week 21
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