Acclaimed Vermont Pianist Paul Orgel To Highlight Composition by Concentration Camp Victim at Holocaust Remembrance Concert at The Jewish Community of Greater Stowe (JCOGS)
Sunday, April 19th at 3 pm
Paul Orgel, one of Vermont's finest concert pianists, will perform a free solo piano recital in commemoration of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, at The Jewish Community of Greater Stowe (JCOGS) on Sunday, April 19th at 3 pm. The concert is sponsored by JCOGS in conjunction with the Greater Stowe Interfaith Coalition.
Orgel is director of the Humanities Program Concert Series at Saint Michael´s College; a member of the music faculty at the University of Vermont; and is on the faculty of the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival. He also contributes reviews for Fanfare Magazine. Orgel has received rave reviews from The New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Barre-Montpelier Times Argus, among others.
Paul Orgel’s “Music From the Holocaust” thematic program at JCOGS will feature the first time he will play the Holocaust-related piece Sonata No. 6 by Viktor Ullmann. This compact, powerful work was composed by Ullmann in 1943 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp before he was taken and later murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Preservation and performance of the Sonata is intended to counteract the intent of the Nazis to eliminate it from human consciousness.
Continuing on the theme, Orgel will also perform works by Schubert, Beethoven, Dvorak and Chopin. “This is the kind of program that pianists (Edith Kraus, Alice Herz-Somer, etc.) performed at Theresienstadt – new pieces by the composers imprisoned there, also including standard repertoire,” says Orgel.
The Holocaust Remembrance Concert at JCOGS is free and open to the public.
JCOGS is located at 1189 Cape Cod Road in Stowe.

For more information on Paul Orgel see: http://www.paulorgel.com/

The Jewish Community of Greater Stowe (JCOGS) is a growing unaffiliated congregation embracing all denominations of Jewry. Conceived in 1988, our mission is "to create and sustain an environment which perpetuates and celebrates Jewish traditions, observances and sense of community." For more information on The Jewish Community of Greater Stowe see: JCOGS.org