Cassatt String Quartet in concert at Shaarei Tikvah

The esteemed Cassatt String Quartet will perform at Shaarei Tikvah, The Scarsdale Conservative Congregation, located at 46 Fox Meadow Road, Scarsdale, on Sunday, April 22, 2012 at 3 PM. 

Acclaimed as one of America's outstanding ensembles, the Cassatt String Quartet has performed throughout North America, Europe, and the Far East. These dynamic women have been named three times by The New Yorker magazine's Best Of The Year CD Selection, have recorded over twenty-five commercial releases and can be found on YouTube.   

Their beautiful and substantive program on April 22^nd features Gerald Cohen’s Playing for Our Lives, a piece that was actually commissioned by the Cassatt String Quartet. Gerald Cohen’s work is a contemporary memorial and tribute to the musical life of the Nazi concentration camp Terezin (Theresienstadt). 

Terezin, near Prague, was in essence a transit camp, where Jews and some other prisoners were kept until transport to the death camps such as Auschwitz. The Nazis allowed a certain amount of art and education to take place at Terezin, both as a way of occupying the prisoners, and also to serve their purpose of deceiving the world as to the nature of concentration camps in general. 

Other pieces on the April 22^nd program include Victor Ullman’s Qt. 3 and selections from Leos Janacek Intimate Letters.   A $20 suggested donation will be welcomed at the door.   For more information telephone 914-472-2013 X 302 or email naomi@shaareitikvah.org