Fear and Faith Women Voice of WWII

The life of Ilse Weber(1903-1944)was cut short in Auschwitz; Yulia Weissberg(1880-1942) died during the blockade of Leningrad; and Elsa Barraine (1910-1999) was an active member of the French Resistance. Dutch composers Henreiette Rosmans(1895-1952) and Rosy Wertheim(1888-1949) went into hiding, but continued to compose music. Each heroine of the program has lived an extraordinary life-some long, while pothers didn’t make it 40. These lives were marked by the most terrifying years of the 20th century-the years of World War II. <br>

<br>Today, this music is a monument to an era of fear and faith. Some compositions included in the program, inspired by soprano Marija Jelic and musicologist Julia Broido, will be performed for the first-time-directly from manuscripts that survived the war. After all, manuscript do not burn.