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Dear Erich β A Jazz Opera By Ted Rosenthal at The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center
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Sat, August 6, 2022
7:30 pm
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This concert performance features members of the NYC Opera cast, accompanied by renowned jazz pianist Ted Rosenthal and his trio with special guest, NEA Jazz Master saxophonist Dave Liebman. Rosenthalβs jazz opera Dear Erich tells a refugee story for our times. Inspired by letters written in Germany between 1938 and 1941 by Herta Rosenthal to the composerβs father, Dear Erich depicts a familyβs dual fates. Erich, a Jewish academic, escapes Nazi Germany to the U.S. and a new life of studies, jazz, and love β while the deteriorating situation in Germany leads to his familyβs cruel and untimely demise at the hands of the Nazis. Frustrated and powerless to help them emigrate, Erich must live with deep survivor guilt which affects his relationships with his wife and children. ...