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Written before the war by Czech-Jewish composer Hans Krasa and dramatist Adolf Hoffineister, the score of Brundibar had been smuggled into the camp, and a few internees began to arrange a production. The teenage orphan Honza Treichlinger approached the conductor in a barrack washroom and demanded the title role. He wanted to play Brundibar, the bigheaded organ grinder who bullies a brother and sister who seek to buy milk for their ailing mother. When the opera premiered in September 1943, in a crowded attic, Treichlinger donned Brundibar's mustache and held the audience — prisoners like himself — rapt. Though he played the villain, he did it with humanity and humor; he twitched his fake whiskers and made the audience momentarily drown their anguish in laughter. He became the camp's darling. Within a year, after 55 performances, it was all over. Treichlinger, the diminu- tive actor, most of his castmates and Krasa would all be killed in the death camps of Poland. Ela Stein (now Weissberger) had played the Cat. She was among the few who sur- vived. After the war ended, Weissberger, in her words, "thought that the opera died with the children:' But it did not. Brundibar, which had provided imagi- native escape for imprisoned boys and girls, will be performed by the young actor-singers of the Michigan Opera Theatre Children's Chorus in a fully staged production at the Detroit Opera House, conducted by Dianna Hochella and direct- ed by myself. Speaking to the audience will be Ms. Weissberger, a torchbearer for the memory of millions. The MOTCC, consisting of 80 children aged 8 to 16, is the Detroit Opera House's resident youth ensamble founded by its director, Suzanne Mallare Acton. Jewish performers in the cast include Anna Chisholm (Gatherer), Eddie Eichenhorn (Boy understudy), Miles Eichenhorn (Brundibar), Gabrielle Feber (3rd Flower, Ice Cream Seller understudy), Kevyn Roessler (Boy), Isabelle Ross (Gatherer understudy) and veteran actress Liz Weiss (2nd Flower). Our family-friendly production is col- orful, flickering as a light emerged from darkness, and uses a translation by the Tony Award-winning playwright Tony Pulling Strings Acclaimed Israeli violinist offers local recitals. Shari Cohen Special to the Jewish News Freiburg (Germany) and the 2011 Juilliard Berg Concerto Competition. In addition, he recently was named one of four recipi- sraeli violinist Itamar Zorman ents of the 2014 Borletti-Buitoni Trust returns to the Detroit area March Awards, which help outstanding young 8-9 for two recitals arranged by musicians to develop and sustain interna- Chamber Soloists of Detroit. He will tional careers. perform the same program both at 8 Last year, Zorman received an Avery p.m. Saturday, March 8, at Kerrytown Fisher Career Grant from Lincoln Center, Concert House in Ann Arbor; and at 3 "to do something beneficial for your p.m. Sunday, March 9, at career:' said the violinist. He First Presbyterian Church in is using the funds to study Farmington Hills. at the Kronberg Academy in Zorman first performed Germany and plans to pur- locally at the 2013 Great chase a new bow. Lakes Chamber Music "The older bows are best Festival, where Pauline for older compositions, and Martin, artistic director of more modern bows are Chamber Soloists Detroit, stronger for the contempo- was very impressed. rary repertoire explained "I thought he was a fabu- Zorman, who plays a 1745 lous young talent, and it's Pietro Guarneri violin from Itamar Zorman exciting to present emerging a private collection. artists:' she said. Zorman was born in 1985 in Tel Aviv, Zorman has acquired top prizes in where his family still lives. New York is international competitions, including Zorman's home base now, although he a silver medal at the prestigious 2011 returns to Israel two or three times a year International Tchaikovsky Competition to visit with his father, Moshe, a classical in Russia. He won both the 2010 composer; his mother, Astrith Baltsan, a International Violin Competition of pianist who has toured the U.S.; and his I