Photo: Martina Kutková, Radio Prague International
Chiune Sugihara was a Japanese diplomat, who saved thousands of Jewish lives during the WWII. His heroic actions are now being celebrated by a new piece of music composed by Lera Auerbach. The Czech premiere of her Symphony No. 6 Vessels of Light will be performed on Monday evening at the Rudolfinum concert hall.
Japanese-American-Israeli cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper, accompanied by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Prague Symphonic Choir is performing Vessels of Light at a dress rehearsal for its evening premiere.
The music, libretto, and artistic concept for the piece was created by Lera Auerbach, a Russian-born American composer and pianist and weaves together Yiddish poetry, the art of Japanese Kintsugi, the Kabbalistic story of the breaking of the vessels and the silent words of biblical Psalm 121.
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Author: Ruth Fraňková