Black Oak Ensemble: Silenced Voices at Ravinia Festival
Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 2 p.m.
Bennett Gordon Hall 200 Ravinia Park Road Highland Park, IL 60035 Website|Map
Black Oak Ensemble, a string trio boasting three of Chicago’s most enterprising and dynamic chamber musicians, is collaborating with JCC Chicago and Ravinia to perform on Violins of Hope—a collection of violins, violas, and cellos that belonged to Jewish musicians before and during the Holocaust, painstakingly restored for cultural exhibitions, performances, and community education with a message of hope, resistance, resilience, and unity.
The works featured on this program share in that history, written by Jewish composers originally from Austria-Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and the Netherlands. Only one of the six survived World War II, as a member of the Dutch resistance; the others perished in concentration camps and elsewhere in Nazi-occupied Europe.
