Upcoming Events, Concerts, Commemorations, Podcasts & More

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Watch a filmed interview with author Mark Ludwig.
Experience the Our Will to Live Concert Event with Yo-Yo Ma.

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UPCOMING • SUMMER 2022

Reading with Art & Music
Friday, August 19, 10:45 AM
The Jewish Federation of the Berkshires hosts Mark Ludwig in its "Nosh and Knowledge" series held at Hevreh of Southern Berkshire, 270 State Rd., Great Barrington, MA.

FALL & WINTER 2022-23

Education
Youth and adult education programs, September in Santiago, Chile.
More information to come.

Live Concert Event
Sunday, October 16, 2022, 3:00 PM Reception, 4:00 PM Concert, optional dinner to follow. SYMPHONY HALL, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA
Concert event with internationally acclaimed pianist Jonathan Biss and Boston's Coro Allegro. More info and tickets are here.

Lecture
Tuesday, October 18, 3:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Boston College

Reading/Discussion with Art & Live Music
NEW DATE: Wednesday, October 26, 2022,
5:30 PM Reception
6:30 PM Concert
BRISTOL COMMUNITY COLLEGE CONCERT HALL, New Bedford, MA
"Children of the Shoah." Pianist Virginia Eskin will join Holocaust music scholar Mark Ludwig in a program of works by Viktor Ullmann, Gideon Klein, Erwin Schulhoff and Ari Sussmann. The concert will feature the world premiere of Ari Sussmann’s piano work inspired by the Bristol Community College’s Button Project. The commission is a joint project between the Holocaust and Genocide Studies Department of BCC and the Terezín Music Foundation.


Reading with Art & Live Music
Monday, November 7, 7:00 PM
GOETHE INSTITUTE, 170 Beacon Street, Boston, MA
Performanes by acclaimed artists: saxophonist Philipp Stäudlin and pianist Yoko Hagino.

Reading with Art & Music
Monday, November 14, 20:00 in the UK on Zoom
Milim: Culture and Heritage for All

Two-Part Study Series
Temple Sinai, Brookline, MA
OUR WILL TO LIVE, Part I
November 13, 2022
11:10 AM – 12:30PM on Zoom (link to come)
With Dr. Anna Ornstein and TMF Director Mark Ludwig
OUR WILL TO LIVE, Part II
March 12, 2023
11:10 AM – 12:30 PM
With TMF Director Mark Ludwig

Reading with Art & Music
November 16, 2:00 PM
NEWBRIDGE ON THE CHARLES, Dedham MA
 
Reading with Art & Live Music
Saturday, December 17, 2022, 7 PM
TEMPLE BETH ZION, 1566 Beacon St., Brookline, MA   
Readings and music performances by Coro Allegro, members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Brookline High School Camerata

Reading with Art & Music
Monday, January 23, 20:00 in the UK on Zoom
Milim: Culture and Heritage for All

RECORDED • listen anytime:

Radio Broadcast
WFMT Chicago. Listen here.
Mark Ludwig's 1991 stellar interview with Studs Terkel is supplemented with new conversation about Our Will to Live and its music tracks. An iconic conversation about discovery, music, and history.

Podcast
"HERE & THERE" with host David Marash
Broadcast on KSFR — Sante Fe Public Radio 101.1 FM. Podcast available online here.

"Warfare of Art & Law" Podcast
Interview with Mark Ludwig. Musical excerpts.
On Apple, Spotify, or here.

PAST EVENTS

Reading with Art & Music
Tuesday, February 22, 6:30 pm (EST) on Zoom
Temple Beth Shalom of Puerto Rico
The Chabad Jewish Center of Puerto Rico
The Jewish Community Center of Puerto Rico-Shaare Zedeck Synagogue

Study Group
Thursday, March 10, 2022, 10:15 AM 
TEMPLE SINAI, 50 Sewall Ave., Brookline, MA
 
Reading with Art & Music
Monday, March 14, 2022, 7:00 PM       
BROOKLINE BOOKSMITH, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA
Free • Register here!

Reception
Sunday, March 20, 4:00 PM
PUCKER GALLERY, 240 Newbury Street, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA
(By invitation only.)

Reading with Art & Music
Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 4:00 PM       
BRISTOL COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Fall River, MA

Reading with Art & Live Music
Thursday, March 31, 6:00 PM-7:30 PM
KEENE PUBLIC LIBRARY, Keene, NH
Performance by celebrated pianist Virginia Eskin.

Study Group
Sunday, April 10, 9:30 AM         
TEMPLE SINAI, 50 Sewall Ave., Brookline, MA
Adult Learning Series Presentation
"Our Will To Live: The Gray Zone" with Dr. Anna Ornstein

Reading with Art & Music
Wednesday, April 13, 7:30 PM–8:30 PM on Zoom
LAPPIN FOUNDATION
Join us to honor Yom HaShoah with a literary, artistic, and musical journey into the astonishing cultural community that persevered in Terezín.

Commemoration with Live Music
Wednesday, April 27, 7:30 PM—9:00 PM
KEHILLATH ISRAEL, 384 Harvard St., Brookline, MA
Interfaith Yom HaShoah Program: "Our Will to Live"
Prayer and live music with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Brookline faith leaders, Brookline High School Camerata directed by Michael Driscol, and author Mark Ludwig. Our Will to Live is a touchstone for honoring the six million silenced in the Shoah.

Reading with Art & Music
Thursday, April 28, 7:30 PM on Zoom
ANSCHE CHESED, New York, NY

Reading with Art & Music
Monday, May 10, 10:30 AM   
CAPE COD LIGHTHOUSE CHARTER SCHOOL, East Harwich, MA
Terezín Music Foundation, the ADL, and the Butterfly Project present a program at the unveiling of a mural created by students to honor prisoners of the Terezín concentration camp.

Reading with Art & Music
Tuesday, May 17, 7:00 PM   
TEMPLE BETH DAVID, 7 Clapboardtree St., Westwood, MA

Book Club Meeting
Berkshire Hills Hadassah Book Club
Friday, June 10, 10 AM on Zoom

Reading with Art & Live Music
Monday, June 13, 7:30 PM-9:00 PM
Bohemian National Hall, New York, NY
Author Mark Ludwig will direct a program with performances by celebrated artists: violinist Michael Ludwig and pianist Beth Levin. Cosponsored by Terezín Music Foundation and the Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews, the Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association,  the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation, and the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in New York. This event is part of the Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival.