Events, readings, concerts & more
UPCOMING • 2023
Events in green are open to the public. Please join us! Contact us to arrange an event. See highlights from our 2022 Symphony Hall concert event. Reading with Art and Music
Monday, January 10, 7 PM Cyncoed Gardens, Cardiff United Synagogue, Cardiff, Wales Reading with Art & Music Monday, January 23, 20:00 in the UK on Zoom Milim: Culture and Heritage for All Film Premiere January 27. Auschwitz survivor and TMF Educator and board member Anna Ornstein. Interview with Mark Ludwig with testimony and readings from her memoir, "My Mother's Eyes." On the TMF YouTube channel. Reading with Art and Music Wednesday, March 8, 2:00 PM Newbridge on the Charles, Dedham, MA Two-Part Study Series Temple Sinai, Brookline, MA OUR WILL TO LIVE, Part II March 12, 2023 11:10 AM – 12:30 PM With TMF Director Mark Ludwig (Join in even if you haven't attended OUR WILL TO LIVE, Part I on November 13 with Auschwitz survivor and author Dr. Anna Ornstein and TMF Director Mark Ludwig.) Film Premiere Tuesday, April 18. Yom HaShoah Concert. On the TMF YouTube channel. Two Afternoon Lectures at Tanglewood Times and programs to be announced. August 11 and 12. Tanglewood Center for Music and Learning. Symphony Hall Concert Event Sunday, November 19. Boston. The TMF Gala. Our only annual fundraising event. See tmfgala.org for details as the event nears. |
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 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. 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. Reading & Discussion September 20, 2022, 7 PM. Instituto Chilean Americano, Santiago, Chile. Education Program October 3, 2022. Instituto Hebraico, Santiago Chile. Live Concert Event: The TMF Symphony Hall Gala 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: "The Arts in the Terezín Concentration Camp" Tuesday, October 18, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Devlin Hall 101, BOSTON COLLEGE Sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts and co-sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program, the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning, and the Film Studies program. Reading/Discussion with Art & Live Music Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 5:30 PM Reception 6:30 PM Concert JACKSON ART CENTER AT BRISTOL COMMUNITY COLLEGE 777 Elsbree St., Fall River, 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 poems by Richard Hoffmann's poems about portraits of Anne Frank and Steve Ross at 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. Lecture Thursday, November 3, 1:30 PM TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Medford, MA 
Reading with Art & Live Music
Monday, November 7, 7:30 PM. Free. GOETHE INSTITUT BOSTON, 170 Beacon Street, Boston, MA. Performanes by acclaimed artists: saxophonist Philipp Stäudlin and pianist Yoko Hagino. Sponsored by the Consulate General of Germany, Goethe Institut Boston, and Terezín Music Foundation. Webinar: Reading, Art & Music November 8, 9:00 PM (EST). (November 9, 1:00 PM Sydney, Australia time.) Online. Join in here and use the code MEMBWEB22. SYDNEY JEWISH MUSEUM, Australia Reading with Art & Music Monday, November 14, 20:00 in the UK on Zoom Milim: Culture and Heritage for All. 
Lighting the Holiday Season with Art & Live Music
December 17, 2022, 7 PM TEMPLE BETH ZION, 1566 Beacon St., Brookline, MA. A concert program on the cusp of Hanukkah and the Holiday season. Coro Allegro, Brookline High School Camerata, and members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will perform works focusing on the light of creativity amidst darkness, concluding with songs of Hanukah. Mark Ludwig, director and narrator. |
