"The Shadow of Your Wings," an evening of music, art, and poetry, complemented by digital projections, is a multi-layered artistic experience providing the audience members with a unique historical perspective on the concentration camp named Terezin.
 
Doris Lederer, violist of the Audubon String Quartet, is the child of Holocaust survivors. She and her quartet colleagues became involved with the music from Terezin when it was discovered that her father had been a key figure in the musical life of the camp. He not only performed regularly for other Terezin prisoners, but also organized many of the camp's public musical events from 1941-1944.
 
This concert presentation includes the live performance of eight works composed in Terezin concentration camp:

Frantisek Domazlicky (1913-1995)
 
Praeludium, EDElstein (Terezin, 1942)

Viktor Kohn (1910-1944, Terezin)
 
Chassidic Dances (Terezin, 1941/42)

Zikmund Schul (1916-1944, Terezin)
 
Gavotte (Terezin, 1942)

Egon Ledec (1889-1944, Auschwitz)
 
Theme and Variations (1936)

Hans Krasa (1899-1944, Auschwitz)
 
String Quartet No.2, Op.7 (1927)

Pavel Haas (1899-1944, Auschwitz)
 
Fugue (Terezin, 1942)

Gideon Klein (1919-1944, Fürstengrube)
 
In the Shadow of Your Wings (Terezin, 1942)

David Grünfeld (1915-1963, NY)
(Notated by Zikmund Schul)
 

Narrator for the performance is Kirsten Trump, Associate Professor of Theatre at Shenandoah University. Poetry readings will be performed by 14-year-old Denisa Banasova, from Jesenik, in the Czech Republic, and Evan Baranowski and Jennie Greenfield, students at Shenandoah Conservatory, Winchester, VA.
 
The Audubon String Quartet, renowned for their "strikingly beautiful, luminescent" sound (The New York Times), has won acclaim throughout the world. Founded in 1974, the ensemble quickly achieved international recognition by winning top prizes in three major competitions in their first four years: The International String Quartet Competition in Evina, France; The String Quartet Competition at the Festival Villa-Lobos in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and The International String Quartet Competition in Portsmouth, England. 

 

The Quartet performs regularly in the major concert halls of the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, and has performed recently in South America and the Caribbean. In 1981, the Quartet toured Mainland China at the invitation of the Chinese Ministry of Culture - the first quartet ever to visit the People's Republic of China. They have performed at the White House and on many radio and television shows, including the BBC in London and CBS Sunday Morning.

 

Members of the Quartet are Ellen Jewett (violin), Doris Lederer (viola), Clyde Shaw (cello), and Akemi Takayama (violin). The Audubon Quartet is Quartet in Residence at Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, VA.