Join us on Sunday, December 8, for an exclusive Japan performance as Lenka Lichtenberg and her ensemble will perform songs from her award winning albums Thieves of Dreams + Silent Tears, the Last Yiddish Tango and other songs written during the Holocaust.
‘Silent Tears, The Last Yiddish Tango’ is a concert program based on testimonies of women from Poland who survived the Holocaust. It won Germany’s Ruth Weltmusikpreis (World Music Prize), a Canadian Folk Music Award, best album at the Ontario Folk Music Awards, and reached #1 on World Music Charts Europe.
Thieves of Dreams is based on poetry that Lenka’s grandmother wrote while incarcerated at the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, which won a Juno Award in 2023 (Canada’s top music prize).
The Silent Tears project began when Dr. Paula David launched a poetry project to help Holocaust survivors deal with long term trauma from horrific crimes such as sexual violence, human experimentation and forced sterilization – some of which they hadn’t even told their own families. Silent Tears also includes a number of works based on Holocaust survivor Molly Applebaum’s diary and memoir, Buried Words. She’s now 94 and lives in Toronto. As a child, she was buried underground in a box on a farm in Dąbrowa, Poland.
From inspiring songs about survival to mournful laments, this award-winning program showcases songs inspired by the poetry of women who are Holocaust survivors and conveys an almost indescribable depth of emotion rarely sung about.
Featuring:
Lenka Lichtenberg, Vocals
Clark Schaufele, Piano
Dan Rosenberg, Narrator
Date: Sunday, December 8, 2024
Time: 3:00 – 5:00pm
Venue: JCJ
Registration: https://jccjapan.jp/event-registration
Read more about Silent Tears here: https://amp.dw.com/en/dealing-with-holocaust-trauma-through-music/a-65048813
And more about Thieves of Dreams:
https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/performer-brings-family-s-holocaust-experience-alive-1.6878523