7:30 PM

In partnership with Arlene Shrut, The Defiant Requiem Foundation will perform a version of Defiant Requiem with the entire orchestral score performed by piano & solo violin with mixed chorus and soloists. This version pays homage to the performances in Terezin in 1943-1944 when the prisoner chorus had only a piano to accompany them.

For soloists, chorus, piano & violin
Murry Sidlin, creator & conductor
Arlene Shrut, piano
Colleen Ferguson, violin

Richard Kemp & Michael Schwartz, actors

Annie Gill, soprano
Bonnie Cutsforth-Huber, mezzo-soprano
Tim Augustin, tenor
Joseph Baunoch, bass

Indiana University of Pennsylvania Chorale
Ryan Beeken, director of choral studies

Penn State Altoona Ivyside Pride
Bonnie Cutsforth-Huber, director