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'Defiant Requiem'
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urry Sidlin's Defiant
Requiem: Verdi at
Terezin pays tribute
to the efforts of Czech conduc-
tor Raphael Schachter to channel
Jewish suffering into music.
Sidlin, the Jewish dean of the
Catholic University School of
Music, has resurrected wartime
prisoners' choral performance
of Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem"at
the Terezin transit camp in
Czechoslovakia. The 130-member
choir, accompanied by a 70-piece
orchestra, performed the requiem
16 times from 19=13-44 for an audi-
ence of Nazi officers.
The requiem received a dramatic
staging last month at a former
Nazi warehouse at Terezin, now a
museum. About 500 people heard
the performance, including several
survivors of the original choir. Sid-
lin's re-enactment is a multimedia
piece featuring Nazi film footage,
survivor testimonies and actors
reading the diaries of those who
sang the requiem at Terezin, some-
times called by its German name
of Theresienstadt, more than five
decades ago.
"Defiant Requiem" will be per-
formed in Israel by the New Haifa
Orchestra next April.
It is, above all, an homage to
Schachter, who smuggled a piano
into Terezin, convinced the Nazis
to allow the performances and
inspired singers in the camp.
A professional pianist and choral
conductor, Schachter had one piece
of sheet music for the entire choir.
And after each concert, members
of the choir were deported to death
camps; by the 15th performance,
only half the singers remained.
Schachter was eventually trans-
ported to Auschwitz and killed
there.
Sidlin wondered why Schachter
wanted a choir to perform the
Catholic piece for the Nazis.
Through survivor Edgar Krasa,
"I learned that the requiem was a
code. It talks about the end of the
world and what happens to those
who commit evil."