Uploaded March 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
"Anti-Semitism is a well-documented and deeply-ingrained phenomenon in classical music. As Jewish artists, we often feel the weight of this worldview; by performing music by composers like Wagner and Strauss, are we legitimizing their prejudice? Music from the concentration camps has given us a point of identification that allows us to confront our precarious positions within the classical tradition and ultimately re-embrace it on our own terms. We are conceiving Why is the World So Quiet? as a way of deepening this experience by interweaving repertoire from the Songbook series with dramatic dialogue, story portraits of one or more featured composers, contemporary letters and poetry, and our own personal narratives.” – Jaclyn Grossman & Nate Ben-Horin (Likht Ensemble)
See more of For All to Hear at pacificopera.ca/event/for-all-to-hear
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:17 Wiegala
4:35 Wendla im Garten
7:08 Schmerzen
9:48 Letter to my son
15:11 Und der Regen rinnt
17:43 Je vis, Je meurs
19:24 Libera me
"Anti-Semitism is a well-documented and deeply-ingrained phenomenon in classical music. As Jewish artists, we often feel the weight of this worldview; by performing music by composers like Wagner and Strauss, are we legitimizing their prejudice? Music from the concentration camps has given us a point of identification that allows us to confront our precarious positions within the classical tradition and ultimately re-embrace it on our own terms. We are conceiving Why is the World So Quiet? as a way of deepening this experience by interweaving repertoire from the Songbook series with dramatic dialogue, story portraits of one or more featured composers, contemporary letters and poetry, and our own personal narratives.” – Jaclyn Grossman & Nate Ben-Horin (Likht Ensemble)
See more of For All to Hear at pacificopera.ca/event/for-all-to-hear
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:17 Wiegala
4:35 Wendla im Garten
7:08 Schmerzen
9:48 Letter to my son
15:11 Und der Regen rinnt
17:43 Je vis, Je meurs
19:24 Libera me
