The Carrollwood Cultural Center and the Tampa Ameet Chapter of Hadassah Present Music Reborn II: Forbidden and Forgotten 11/10

The Carrollwood Cultural Center and the Tampa Ameet Chapter of Hadassah are proud to present Music Reborn II: Forbidden and Forgotten, a memorial to gifted Jewish composers whose lives were lost in The Holocaust and a fitting tribute to the innocent victims of Kristallnacht, on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 7:30 pm.

Last year's successful program was performed with piano, violin, viola and voice at the Carrollwood Cultural Center by professional classical musicians, featuring Tampa's own Nancy Rubenstein, pianist and founder of Music Reborn.

This year's expanded program will again feature the music of seven of the remembered composers and will also include a taped video interview of a survivor telling his own story: Andre Kupfermunz, a Hidden Child of Belgium. The important music of these seven lost composers is a memorial also to the jewish victims of Kristallnacht, often called the Night of Broken Glass, which signaled the beginning of The Holocaust.

We are honored to have Father Vit Fiala, a Franciscan Friar and a regional director of Fransciscan missions, formerly of Czechoslovakia, as one of our talented musicians. Other performing artists will include Brian Payne, violinist, Jason Jerald, violist, Debra Horne, soprano and Mary Ann Scialdo, pianist.
The fundraising event for Hadassah Ameet will be held at the Carrollwood Cultural Center

4537 Lowell Road Tampa FL 33618 on Tuesday, November 10 at 7:30 pm.

General admission: $18

Benefactor's special seating: $36

Patron's special seating: $54 (Includes a Meet the Artist Patron's Reception after the performance).
For additional information, reservations and to become an esteemed sponsor of Music Reborn II,

please contact Luise Burman at (813) 982-1480.

MUSIC REBORN is an educational project focusing on the research, performance, and preservation of music suppressed by the Nazis during the first of the 20th Century. This includes both Jewish and non-Jewish composers from across Europe, many of whom were conservatory-trained and internationally acclaimed prior to the reign of the Third Reich. Their music encompasses a wide variety of musical styles and genres. It is a common misconception that music related in any way to the Holocaust is morbid or melancholy, when in fact, the opposite is often the case. Despite their attempt to thwart creativity and artistic freedom, the Nazis were unsuccessful at eliminating music as a means of self-expression. They did, however, destroy countless manuscripts and altered or ended the careers of composers, teachers and performers. Some composers fled for their lives, but many were murdered and persecuted. Much of the music that survived remains unpublished, or has fallen into obscurity. The musical world is beginning to realize how much of 20th Century repertoire was lost, and ultimately, never came to be.

MUSIC REBORN is dedicated to the goal of revisiting a lost generation of composers by preserving and playing their works. We remember and honor the composers, while reinforcing the intrinsic value or their music, and are reminded of how the human spirit survives through the most difficult of times.

Nancy Rubenstein - Founder of MUSIC REBORN

A native of Tampa, Nancy Rubenstein began her piano studies at the age of three, and studied throughout her childhood with the late Lucille Dworshak. She obtained degrees in Music Education and Piano Pedagogy from the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she was a student of Peter Amstutz. While in Colorado, she performed Ravel's Concerto in G during the Denver Symphony Orchestra's In-Residency in Fort Collins, as a winner of the concerto competition. As a pianist, Nancy devotes herself to chamber music and accompanying instrumentalists and vocalists. She has taught both privately and in the public schools, where she assists with concerts and musicals. Nancy is a yearly participant in the Summertrios chamber music program, where she has worked with David Oei and Lilli Friedman, and many young professional string players.

As founder of the project MUSIC REBORN, she has researched composers whose lives were affected by the reign of the Nazis before and during WWII, collected scores and organized concerts since 2003. The purpose of MUSIC REBORN is to rediscover and preserve the music of this lost generation of early twentieth century European composers, and to share it with audiences, In April of 2007, Nancy traveled to the Czech Republic, where she met with Professor David Bloch, founder of the Terezin Memorial Music Project, director of the Terezin Music Anthology and music advisor for the Tezerin International Music Center in Prague.

KRISTALLNACHT

Young Hirssch Grynszpan, staying in Paris, received a postcard from his father describing how the Nazis had rounded up and abused 12,000 Jews, forcibly expelling them from Germany across the Polish border. Enraged, Grynszpan entered the German Embassy on November 6, 1938 and shot the first German official who received him., Ernst vom Rath. Using vom Rath's death as a pretext, Hitler unleashed an unprecedented wave of violence on November 9, 1938 against Germany's remaining three hundred thousand Jews. Stormtroopers and ordinary citizens were encouraged to break into Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues, burning and looting, beating and murdering. In twenty-four hours of street violence, ninety-one Jews were killed, more than thirty thousand arrested and sent to concentration camps, one hundred ninety-one synagogues destroyed in what was called Kristallnacht", the night of broken glass. In the aftermath of Kristallnacht, German Jewry was "fined" a thousand million marks for the damage done and twenty percent of the property of every German Jew was confiscated, while Jewish children were barred from German schools. Kristallnacht signaled the opening of the Nazi war against the Jews.

The Carrollwood Cultural Center is a partnership between Hillsborough County and the Friends of the Carrollwood Cultural Center. It is the first cultural center in the Hillsborough County Parks, Recreation and Conservation Department system and opened in March 2008. The building is a complete renovation of the old St. Mark's Episcopal Church and a new addition that provides more than 22,000 square feet of space for the arts.

The mission of the Friends of the Center is to offer cultural programs, services and events that encourage individual exploration and promotes a sense of community. The Center participates with several Florida interest groups to promote the arts and its influences throughout the community. These groups offer intergenerational programs as well as initiatives that address particular individual needs and encompass graphic and performing arts, continuing education, and community outreach programs.

The Friends of the Carrollwood Cultural Center, a 501(c)3 organization. For more information visit the Center website at www.carrollwoodcenter.org.

Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, is a volunteer women's organization founded in 1912, whose members are motivated and inspired to strengthen their partnership with Israel, ensure Jewish continuity, and their potential as a dynamic force in American society.

Committed to the centrality of Israel based on the renaissance of the Jewish people. In Israel, Hadassah initiates and supports pace-setting health care, educational and youth institutions, and land development to meet the country's changing needs.

In the United States, Hadassah enhances the quality of American and Jewish life through its education and Zionist youth programs, promotes health awareness and provides personal enrichment and growth for its members.

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