UNL faculty members
Karen Becker, cello
Kate Butler, mezzo-soprano
Susan Levine Ourada, dance
with
Michael Cotton, piano
and UNL dancers

will present

Seed of Dream and Other Visions
A Holocaust Remembrance Recital

featuring

From Jewish Life by Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)
Prayer
Supplication
Jewish Song
Quatuor pour la fin du temps by Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Elegy and Vision for Solo Cello by Laurence Sherr (b. 1953)

and

The Seed of Dream by Lori Laitman (b. 1955)
a song cycle for mezzo, cello and piano
to texts by Abraham Sutzkever

The Seed of Dream sets several poems of the Vilna Ghetto survivor Abraham Sutzkever, who consistently produced poems of great artistry under the most dire of circumstances. These first-hand accounts, written between 1941 and 1944, not only bear witness to the destruction around him but to his undying belief in the beauty of the word and the world. The Seed of Dream was commissioned by Music of Remembrance and had its premier performance in 2005 at the Holocaust Remembrance Concert in Seattle, WA.