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Berlin plans VE-Day concert to combat antisemitism

Berlin plans VE-Day concert to combat antisemitism

The Deutsche Radio Philharmonie has announced a May 8 anniversary concert with the emphasis on fighting renewed antisemitism.

The programme consists of two works composed in the Terezin concentration camp – Pavel Haas’s Study got String Orchestra and Gideon Klein’s Partita for Strings – and two by the US-exiled composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold (pictured), the violin concerto and Theme and Variations, opus 42.

Synagogue cantor Benjamin Chait will recite a prayer.

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