WHERE AND WHEN:
Sunday, May 5, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Sinai Temple - Ziegler Sanctuary
10400 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024

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ABOUT CONCERT:
Come enjoy a free concert in commemoration of Yom HaShoah, featuring Cantor Marcus Feldman and the Los Angeles Zimriyah Chorale, led by Music Director Dr. Nick Strimple!

ABOUT NICK STRIMPLE:
Working to bring people together through music, American composer and conductor Nick Strimple enjoys a diverse career as professor, author, and scholar. Having written over 130 works in virtually all genres, including television and film, Strimple's works often explore and unite contrasting themes. In demand as a composer, his compositional range and contemporary perspectives have drawn commissions from many organizations including the Vienna International Organ Festival, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Diva Complex, Jorge Mester, and the London Youth Choir. Featured in live concerts throughout the U.S., Europe, and Israel, his music can also be heard on the Naxos, Music and Arts, and 4-Tay labels.

Nick Strimple was born in Amarillo, Texas, in 1946 and studied at Baylor University and the University of Southern California (receiving both his MM and DMA). A performer-scholar of Czech music, in 1985 he conducted the first 20th-century performances in America of Dvořák’s oratorio Saint Ludmila, and he has also directed premieres of works by such 20th-century Czech composers as Pavel Haas and Gideon Klein, Jan Hanuš, Petr Eben, and Arnošt Parsch. Also well-versed in music related to the Holocaust, Strimple organized and conducted two concerts in conjunction with the Terezin Then and Now exhibition at the Pauline Hirsh Gallery of the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles and later served on the California State Legislature Working Group for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Education. He is currently professor of choral music at the University of Southern California and the music director of the Los Angeles Zimriyah Chorale since 1998. His critically acclaimed Choral Music in the Nineteenth Century and Choral Music in the Twentieth Century are used as textbooks worldwide.

Strimple also served for many years as the Music Minister at the Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church.  

 

PROGRAM:
Los Angeles Zimriyah Chorale
Nick Strimple, Music Director
El Malei Rachamim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Meir Finkelstein
 Der Jüdische Kulturbund / Transit Camps / Eastern Ghettos
 Sound an Alarm! / We Hear, We Hear!/Worship God and God Alone 
from Judas Maccabaeus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G. F. Handel
 Nocturne from 2nd String Quartet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alexander Borodin
 Nit Kayn Rozinkes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David Beyglman and Isaiah Schpigl
 
Theresienstadt
Opening Chorus from The Bartered Bride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bedrich Smetana 
The Roznov Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Slovak Folksong
Arrangement  attributed to Gideon Klein and Raphael Schaechter     
The Heavens are Telling from The Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F. J. Haydn
Finale from Elijah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Felix Mendelssohn
Karussell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Martin Roman and Kurt Gerron
Humoureske . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Antonin Dvorak
 
 Forced Labor and Death Camps
Elokai Ad Shelo Notzarti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   Yossele Rosenblat
Warsaw Polonaise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anonymous 18th or early 19th century
Discovered and transcribed in Auschwitz by Szymon Laks
 
Commemorative Works
 The Blue Rose Sings, from Music for the Blue Rose . . . . . . . . . . . Nick Strimple
  Byt Svetem Vladla . . . . . . Attributed to Gideon Klein and Raphael Schaechter
  Arranged by Ohad Stolarz
 Finale from Requiem Ebraico (Psalm 92) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eric Zeisl
 Psalm 133 (Hine Ma Tov) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Nick Strimple