The Sydney presentation of Brundibár
- Date
- Monday 18 May 2015
You are invited to an About Music Lecture given by Dr Joseph Toltz (Sydney Conservatorium of Music)
'About Music Lecture - Can the redemptive reading be resisted? The Sydney presentation of Brundibár'
Sydney Conservatorium of Music Monday, 18 May 2015 from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM (AEST), Sydney, NSW
Brundibár is a small children’s opera, written in 1938, made most famous through its 55 performance in the Terezín Ghetto (Theresienstadt) between 1943 and 1944. My talk will focus on the many layers of negotiation and mediation between witness and culture, as I retrace and deconstruct the processes leading to the performance.
Dr Joseph Toltz is Research Fellow at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and Early Career Researcher for "Performing the Jewish Archive", a three-year AHRC (UK) project spanning four continents. His area of expertise is music and memory in Jewish Holocaust survivors. In August 2014 he staged the first Sydney performances of the children's opera Brundibár.
Join us afterwards for light refreshments and a chat with the presenter.
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