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WQED shows mark Passover
Saturday, April 19, 2008

WQED-FM (89.3) is marking Passover, along with Holocaust Remembrance Days, with a series of specials, starting Sunday.

• Sunday's "Sacred Classics" features the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra with the Ernst Senff Choir performing selections from Hallel Service by Israeli composer Yehezkel Braun. The program airs from 7 to 10 a.m.

• "World Class" -- Israel in Egypt, Handel's Passover oratorio, performed by the Monteverdi Orchestra and Chorus (Sunday from 7 to 10 p.m.).

• The Western Wind's Passover Story -- The Western Wind Vocal ensemble, with narrator Theodore Bikel (Monday at 9 p.m.).

• "The Joy of Prayer" -- Martin Kalmanoff's Friday evening and Saturday morning Sabbath Service music, with baritone Sherrill Milnes as cantor (April 24 at 8:45 p.m.).

• "A Voice for the Silenced" -- Singer Ela Weissberger, a survivor of the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, joins host Monika Vischer and conductor James Conlan (April 30 at 9 p.m.).

• Music of Remembrance: Brundibar -- Hans Krasa's "Brundibar," an opera composed at the Terezin concentration camp (May 1 at 9 p.m.).

First published on April 19, 2008 at 12:00 am
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