The Berkeley Community Chorus and Orchestra has commissioned composer Michael Schachter to create a choral work to commemorate the organization’s 60th anniversary and to honor the memory of the prisoners in the Terezin concentration camp. The genesis of the piece is the fact that something extraordinary happened within the walls of the concentration camp during World War II. Despite facing starvation, disease and the constant threat of deportation to Auschwitz, the Jewish prisoners mounted operas, formed choirs, composed new works, and performed masterpieces—most famously, the Verdi Requiem. The new work, the “Terezín Requiem” for chorus and orchestra, emerges directly from this history. The program includes Haydn's Theresienmesse, the 4th of this 6 great masses he composed at the end of his life. The concert features young soloists form a national search and full orchestra. Reserve you FREE tickets at BCCO.org