Download Raanana Symphonette

Raanana
Symphonette
Orchestra
Music Director Omer M.Wellber
Giorgio Perlasca
“The Double Bass from Venice”
‫‏‬Presenting an Original composition by Moshe Zorman, dedicated to
‫‏‬Giorgio Perlasca- Righteous Among the Nations
‫‏‬Inspired by ‫”‏‬Per non dimenticare” by Primo Levi
‫‏‬Conductor: Omer M. Wellber
‫‏‬Soloists: Matteo Liuzzi – Double Bass (Italy)
Guy Mannheim - Tenor
‫‏‬Moshe Zorman: “His Finest Hour” - Homage to Giorgio Perlasca, for Tenor and Orchestra (Premiere) (20 min.)
‫‏‬R. Strauss: Serenade in E-flat Major, Op. 7 (10 min.)
‫‏‬Bottesini: Double Bass Concerto No. 2 in B minor (17 min.)
‫‏‬Mozart: Serenade No. 6 in D Major for String Orchestra & Solo String Quartet,
‫‏‬K. 239 (Serenata Notturna) (13 min.)
‫‏‬Haydn: Symphony No. 44 in E minor (Trauer Symphonie) (22 min.)
~ Guests of Honor ~ Franco Perlasca & Luciana Amadio
The son & daughter in law of Giorgio Perlasca
‫‏‬Mr. Liuzzi Matteo, the first Double-bass at Teatro La Fenice di Venezia will be our guest soloist for this concert,
playing Bottesini: Double Bass Concerto No. 2 in B minor and Mozart: Serenade No. 6 in D Major
for String Orchestra & Solo String Quartet, K. 239 (Serenata Notturna)
His participation is sponsored by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Tel Aviv
Director, Simonetta De Felicis - Cultural Attaché
Moshe Zorman’s composition: “His Finest Hour” - Homage to Giorgio Perlasca, is dedicated to the honorable
Mr. Perlasca and to Mr. Perlasca’s fascinating story.
Under the baton of Maestro Omer M. Wellber, our music director, who will later on in the year,
conduct on the piece at the prestigious Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Italy.
‫‏‬This project came to life with the help and sponsorship of Piergaetano Marchetti,
President of the Fondazione Italia Israele per la Cultura e le Arti, IIFCA.
Press enter for the next page
Raanana
Symphonette
Orchestra
Music Director Omer M.Wellber
‫‏‬We believe that by doing so, we can accomplish the main objective in this enterprise preserving and promoting the memory of the distinguished Mr. Perlasca and his heroic acts.
‫ ‏‬y performances in both Israel and Italy, we maintain the cultural relations of the two states and emphasize the
B
importance of Holocaust remembrance throughout the world.
The concert will be attended by the Israeli ministry of Foreign Affairs Officials.
‫‏‬The Israeli Embassy in Rome is responsible for the arrival of Mr. Perlasca’s relatives in Italy,
to the concert in Israel.
The Perlasca Project
In 2007 the Raanana Symphonette Orchestra reconstructed the tragic story of Alma Rosé, who directed the Auschwitz
Women’s Orchestra and, in the same year, the orchestra was awarded the prestigious Engel Prize (named after the composer
Yoel Engel) for “its unique contribution to promoting Jewish musical heritage of all generations. ” This prize is given every
three years for “original musical creation and performance”.
The Raanana Symphonette Orchestra has initiated a special project as a tribute to the Righteous Among the Nations,
who were a ray of light in that terrible darkness, saving Jews while sometimes sacrificing their own lives.
Leading Israeli composers have composed original pieces dedicated as tribute to the Righteous Among the Nations.
A special project was dedicated to Irena Sendler, the brave woman who saved hundreds of jewish children in Poland during
the holocaust.
The Raanana Symphonette Orchestra takes great pride in bringing the topic of the Righteous Among the Nations to the
focal point of audiences around the globe and does so with the utmost dedication and honor and via the one method we
know best – music.
The inspiring story of Giorgio Perlasca has been introduced to the orchestra and we have taken upon ourselves
to bring it to the stage forefront.
Giorgio Perlasca
Giorgio Perlasca posed as the Spanish consul-general to Hungary in the winter of 1944, and saved 5018 Jews from Nazi
Germany and the Holocaust.
During the World War II, after the American general Dwight Eisenhower announcement of unconditional surrender of Italy
to the allied forces, Perlasca chose to stay loyal to the King and fight on the Allies› side. This cost him his freedom as the
Hungarian government took him as a prisoner, confining him in a castle reserved for diplomats. Perlasca took advantage of
a medical pass that allowed him to travel within Hungary to get away and use his safe pass and become a safe man.
He worked with the Spanish Chargé d›Affaires, Ángel Sanz Briz, and other diplomats of neutral states in smuggling Jews out
of the country. The system he devised consisted of furnishing ‹protection cards› which placed Jews under the guardianship
of various neutral states, and of creating protected houses in mansions governed by extraterrorial conventions, thereby
guaranteeing asylum for persecuted Jews.
Later, the Hungarian government ordered the Spanish Embassy building and the extraterritorial houses where the Jews
took refuge cleared out. Perlasca immediately gave the false announcement that Sanz Briz was due to return from a short
leave, and that he had been appointed a substitute.
Throughout the winter, Perlasca was active in hiding, shielding and feeding thousands of Jews in Budapest, and to issue
them with safe conduct passes on the basis of a Spanish law passed in 1924 that grants citizenship to Jews of Sephardi
origin.
In December 1944, Perlasca audaciously rescued two boys from being herded onto a freight train in defiance of a German
lieutenant colonel on the scene. Swedish diplomat/rescuer Raoul Wallenberg, also present, later informed Perlasca that the
officer who had challenged him was none other than Adolf Eichmann. In a period of some 45 days, from December the 1st
1944 to the 16 of January 1945, he saved over five thousand Jews by his own initiative, about four times as many as were
saved by much more famous Oskar Schindler.
‫‏‬After the war, Perlasca returned to Italy, but didn’t reveal his actions to anyone, including his family, until 1987, when a
group of Hungarian Jews he had saved finally found him. Giorgio Perlasca died 1992, having received decorations from the
Italian, Hungarian and Spanish governments and is considered by the State of Israel as one of the Righteous Among the
Nations.