Babi Yar Commemorative Concert Screening
Event description
B'nai B'rith Raoul Wallenberg Unit
Presents a one-off screening of the
BABI-YAR 75TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE CONCERT
Tuesday 4 July
Program begins at 2:00pm sharp
$25 per person (includes afternoon tea)
Special opportunity to view the recording of the extraordinary Zelman Memorial Symphony Orchestra Concert from 2017.
Bass Baritone Adrian Tamburini as soloist and an 80 strong male voice choir gave a concert featuring Shostakovich Symphony No 13, Babi Yar.
This symphony sets Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s poem Babi Yar to music.
The concert was held as a commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the worst of the massacres perpetrated by the Nazis at Babi Yar when they murdered 33,771 Jews in two days.
This event is a fundraiser for Jewish Ukrainian refugees through "The Joint".