Apr

7 2013

The Music of Theresienstadt: Defiance and Remembrance

1:30PM - 2:30PM  

Suffern Free Library 210 Lafayette Ave.
Suffern, NY 10901
845-357-1237 askus@suffernfreelibrary.org
http://www.suffernfreelibrary.org

Contact
845-357-1237
askus@suffernfreelibrary.org

Nancy Petschek-Kohn, co-founder of Children and Artists of Terezin, along with Mary Ann Joyce-Walter, composer, will present a Holocaust Remembrance audio/visual presentation about the children’s opera Brundibar, followed by Cantata for the Children of Terezin. Nancy Petschek- Kohn, LCSW, is an anti-bias educator. She creates and runs programs for various settings, and is director of the Juvenile Anti-Bias Education Program for the Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center in Westchester County, NY. She is co-founder of Children and Artists of Terezin, an educational foundation based in Prague and New York, which was created to educate people about the the lessons of the Holocaust as well as about the Camp itself. Nancy is on the Boards of American Jewish Committee, Westchester Jewish Community Services, and We Are Westchester, a coalition of groups seeking rights and justice for all people living in Westchester County. Mary Ann Joyce-Walter, Ph.D., was born in Champaign-Urbana , Illinois. After graduate school at Washington University, St. Louis, she moved to the New York City area where she has remained, and currently resides in Rockland County . She is an active composer of instrumental, choral and vocal music, and professor emerita at Manhattanville College. Her works have been performed at international festivals and concerts through the United States , Europe , and Russia . Mary Ann’s works are published by Pioneer Drama, World Library of Sacred Music, Ars Nova, and Gold Branch; her pieces are available on CDs from Ravello Records, Capstone and Pioneer Drama. (www.maryannjoyce-walter.com)