Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín

April 23, 2025

Wednesday
April 23, 2025
7:30pm

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BENJAMIN LOEB conducts
VICKY GLIKIN narrator
MURRY SIDLIN creator and narrator
DALLAS SYMPHONY CHORUSANTHONY BLAKE CLARK chorus director
TEMPLE EMANU-EL CHOIR – CHRIS CROOK chorus director

ALLISON CHARNEY soprano
ELENI MATOS mezzo soprano
BRUCE SLEDGE tenor
SCOTT CONNER bass

Experience the power of resilience and remembrance with Murry Sidlin’s Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín — a multimedia concert-drama that commemorates the remarkable story of courageous Jewish prisoners in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp (Terezín) during World War II who performed the ambitious Verdi Requiem while enduring the depths of human degradation. Sponsored by Temple Emanu-El and presented on Yom Hashoah by the DSO in commemoration of the Holocaust and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Terezin, this Dallas premiere is a testament to moral courage, the strength of the human spirit, and the transcendent power of the arts. Conducted by Benjamin Loeb and featuring Defiant Requiem Foundation Founder Murry Sidlin, the Temple Emanu-El Choir, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and soloists soprano Allison Charney, mezzo soprano Eleni Matos, tenor and bass to be announced.

Dallas Symphony Chorus

Chorus

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Anthony Blake Clark

Chorus Director

Jean D. Wilson Chair

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Benjamin Loeb

Conductor

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Murry Sidlin

The Defiant Requiem Foundation President and Creative Director

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Cantor Vicky Glikin

Senior Cantor of Temple Emanu-El

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Allison Charney

Soprano

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Scott Conner

Bass

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Cantor Leslie Niren

Cantor of Temple Emanu-El

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Eleni Matos

Soloist

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Bruce Sledge

Tenor

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Cantor Hallie Weiner

Cantor of Temple Emanu-El

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Chris Crook

Director of Temple Emanu-El Choir

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