Join FIU Artist in Residence and violinist Robert Davidovici for a chamber music program of contemplation and commemoration of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day). 

After the performance, audiences have an opportunity to discuss the repertoire with the performers. 

Program:

Adagio from Sonata No.1 for Solo Violin in G minor   ..... J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

Sonata No.3 for Solo Violin  " Ballade"......................Eugene Ysaye (1858-1931)

"SHOAH for Solo Violin and sacred temple".............Jorge Grundman (b.1961)
     1.  Yom HaShoah
     2.   Getto Warszawskie
     3.   Terezin  Through the Eyes of the Children
     4.    Babi-Yar
     5.    Bergen-Belsen  The Suffering of Being Unable to Perform
     6.    The Last Breath
 

According to Spanish composer Grundman, "The purpose of 'Shoah' is to capture in the collective memory the shame and horrors of the Jewish Holocaust. It is a Partita for violin consisting of seven musical movements. Each of them is dedicated to one of the concentration camps and ghettos of the Second World War. The idea arose from the need to write music to honor, among others, the children who made more than four thousand five hundred drawings made between 1942 and 1944 in the concentration camps to escape the terror that surrounded them."