Michael Shapiro
Voices of the Holocaust for soloist, chorus, and chamber orchestra (p/v)
Duration: 60'
Voices of the Holocaust for soloist, chorus, and chamber orchestra (p/v)
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Michael Shapiro
Voices of the Holocaust for soloist, chorus, and chamber orchestra (p/v)
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Type: Dirigierpartitur
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VOICES of the Holocaust is an eight movement work for soloist (soprano or tenor), mixed chorus, and chamber orchestra. Each movement is in a different language, Hebrew, Spanish, Italian, French, and Ladino, making clear the international scale of this tragedy.
VOICES is of course a work of remembrance. But it is also a warning.
Based on Sephardic poetry of the Holocaust compiled by (and used with permission of)
Isaac Jack Levy, VOICES is my requiem to those countless souls murdered by the Nazis
and their collaborators. It is indeed a Kaddish, the Aramaic word for “holy,” a hymn of
sanctification.
Yet, unlike a Mourner’s Kaddish, Voices is meant to be a living expression of those stilled
by evil and tyranny.
May their VOICES be heard!