2018 LIBERARTE EVENT:

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Composer Jiri Gemrot at the premiere of "A Lament for Military Secretaries / Rune."
May 20 at the Spanish Synagogue, through our partnership with the Prague Spring International Festival. 

​The Martinú Voices premiered "A Lament for Military Secretaries/Rune" by Jiri Gemrot
Settings of poems by, respectively, Jiri Dedecek and Richard Hoffman. World premiere May 20, 2018 as part of the Prague Spring International Festival, in the Spanish Synagogue. Read poet Richard Hoffman's extraordinary essay on having this poem set to music and hearing the premiere.

Martinú Voices also gave the Prague Spring International Festival  premiere of 
"The Song about the Child / Mother Tongue" by Sivan Eldar
a choral setting of TMF-commissioned poems by Salman Masalha and Agi Mishol.

THE FIRST LIBERARTE CONCERT EVENTS WERE:

June 29, 2015 
at Prague’s Spanish Synagogue

"This was one of the most moving concerts I've ever been a part of. Boston Children's Chorus - you made me fall in love with music making all over again. Thank you. You reminded me what it's all about."  -- Sivan Eldar, Liberarte Commission composer
The program featured the WORLD PREMIERE by the Boston Children's Chorus of the first three LIBERARTE Commissions:
  • The poems “Mother Tongue" by Agi Mishol (Jewish Israeli descendant of Holocaust survivors) and “The Song About the Child” by Salman Masalha (Arab Israeli living in Jerusalem) set to music by Israeli composer Sivan Eldar
  • Irish poet Justin Quinn’s “Regreen” set to music by Irish composer Elaine Agnew
  • Cuban poet Ernesto Santana's “The Day of Light” set to music by U.S. composer David Post
 . . . plus a performance by Mark Ludwig of the "Preludium" by Terezin composer Gideon Klein (Prague 1940).
Thank you to Michael J. Lutch for the photos above. Thanks also to BCC Music Director Anthony Trecek-King and to the Jewish Museum of Prague for their support for this memorable event. 

October 5, 2015 
at Boston's Symphony Hall 
Read the Boston Globe's glowing review.

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ANDRIS NELSONS, BSO Music Director, conducted members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra at our October 5, 2015 Symphony Hall Gala Concert. Photo by Chris Lee.
The Terezin Music Foundation Gala. 
Featuring ANDRIS NELSONS conducting members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra performing MUSIC FROM TEREZIN 
plus:

the WORLD PREMIERE by Coro Allegro of the fourth LIBERARTE Commission:
  • Richard Blanco’s poem, “Leaving Limerick in the Rain” set to music by U.S./Argentine composer Pablo Ortiz . (RICHARD BLANCO, U.S. Presidential Inaugural Poet, will also perform a reading of this poem.)

the NORTH AMERICAN/U.S. PREMIERE by Boston Children's Chorus of LIBERARTE Commissions:
  • The poems “Mother Tongue" by Agi Mishol (Jewish Israeli descendant of Holocaust survivors) and “The Song About the Child” by Salman Masalha (Arab Israeli living in Jerusalem) set to music by Israeli composer Sivan Eldar
  • Justin Quinn’s poem, “Regreen” set to music by Irish composer Elaine Agnew
  • Ernesto Santana's poem “The Day of Light” set to music by U.S. composer David Post
 . . . plus launch of the LIBERARTE book, Liberation: New Works on Freedom from Internationally Renowned Poets.