The World Premiere of The ‘Night’ Holocaust Project

The World Premiere of The ‘Night’ Holocaust Project Arkady Feldman Conductor and Artistic Director Tamara Gverdtsiteli Presentation of the “Night” memoir in Russian (Kaliningrad) Daniel Mutlu Tenor soloist (United States) Helena Goldt Soprano soloist (Germany) Rita Schteinfer – Violin soloist (Israel) Grigory Yanovsky – Cello soloist (Israel) Ekaterina Bergstedt – Oboe soloist (Sweden) The Kaliningrad Symphony Orchestra – Conductor Arkady Feldman The Moscow Male Jewish Cappella – Conductor Alexander Tsaliuk The State Choir Vilnius – Conductor Arturas Dambrauskas The “Cyrillic” Chamber Choir – Conductor Marina Bukova The Kaliningrad Musical Theater Choir – Conductor Konstantin Belonogov “Night” Holocaust memoir by ELIE WIESEL (1928 -2016) “Night” translation (French to English) – Marion Wiesel “Night” excerpts translations (Russian) – Dr. Yuriy Tkachov Music by Leib Glantz (1898 – 1964) Orchestrations of Leib Glantz Liturgical compositions by Maestro Joseph Ness – Hartford, Connecticut, USA Special arrangement of Leib Glantz’s composition “Birkat Kohanim” by Raymond Goldstein Executive Producer – Dr. Jerry Glantz – Boca Raton, Florida, USA Executive Producer – Ing. Matthias Dusterhoft – Hannover, Germany Executive Producer – Dr. Katty W. Cohen – Boca Raton, Florida, USA Project Manager – Lyudmila Novozhilova – Kaliningrad, Russia Video and Lighting – Igor Fominov Audio and Sound – Andrey Shchukin Video Power Point – Lior Azoulai – “Moxie” Creative Solutions The “Night” event is presented under the patronage of the Governor of Kaliningrad Oblast – Mr. Anton Andreyevich Alikhanov, and the President of the Hanover Region – Mr. Hauke Jagau. Funds to support this “Night” Project were contributed by the Foreign Ministry of Germany, thanks to former Vice – President of the German Bundestag Madam Edelgard Bulmahn, and current President and former German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Dr. Michael Banzhaf, general Consul of Germany in Kaliningrad. Our Sincere thanks to: Madam Rita Herrmann and Mr. Friedmann Nitschke of The Association for International Friendship and Tolerance for their generous support. Prof. Alan Berger – Chairman of the 40-member International Advisory Board of the “Night” Holocaust Project for his enthusiastic support, and Cantor Benjamin Maissner for his devoted support. The United States Holocaust memorial Museum in Washington DC for their cooperation in supplying video and photography for the visual presentation. Dr. Andre perry for his HD Audio Recording of Leib Glantz’s music – “The Man Who Spoke To God”