Kristallnacht Commemoration

Mark 87 years since the Night of Broken Glass with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and a concert featuring music by Hans Krása, Viktor Ullmann, Pavel Haas, James Simon, Gideon Klein, and Erwin Schulhoff, and poetry by Ilse Weber, Gertrud Kolmar, and Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger. Performed by the young artists of the Mannes School of Music, the program features Krása’s “Three Songs for Baritone, Clarinet, Viola and Cello,” songs by Pavel Haas and Viktor Ullmann, Gideon Klein’s remarkable “Sonata for Piano,” James Simon’s “Sonata for Cello and Piano,” and Erwin Schulhoff’s “Sonata for Flute and Piano.”

Presented by the American Society for Jewish Music and the Mannes Sounds Festival; co-sponsored by the Leo Baeck Institute, the Center for Jewish History, and YIVO.