Eureka Chamber Music Series and Temple Beth El Present

Different Trains: Music and the Holocaust

Sunday, March 2nd at 2pm at Temple Beth El

3233 T Street in Eureka

In our increasingly fractured and polarized society, the arts are one of the few activities that can help to bridge the divide and bring us together. Music has an uncanny way of celebrating our differences while illuminating our common humanity. Please join Eureka Chamber Music Series and Temple Beth El for a joint presentation of “Different Trains,” an immersive presentation combining live music and a panel discussion about freedom, history, and the role of art in society. $5 tickets.

The award winning Balourdet Quartet and ECMS artistic director Tom Stone will present musical selections and a discussion of music in the context of the holocaust. The centerpiece of the event will be a performance of the groundbreaking and Grammy winning “Different Trains” by American composer Steve Reich, which combines live musical performance with pre-recorded sound, inspired by two very different sorts of World War II era train trips, one in America and and one in Europe. Also included will be works by Erwin Schulhoff, the great Austro-Czech composer whose life was cut short at the Würzburg concentration camp in 1942, the beloved German composer Felix Mendelssohn, who was the grandson of the influential Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, as well as the revered composer Ludwig van Beethoven.