April 1 & April 2

Unsilenced Voices: Resilience and Hope

Atherton Auditorium

Conductor

Peter Jaffe, Music Director

Guest Artist

Cedric Berry, bass-baritone

Reciter & Narrator

Imogen Cohen

Combined Male Chorus from

Stockton Chorale and Delta College Choir, Bruce Southard, director
University of the Pacific Chorus, Yejee Choi, director
Lincoln High School Choir, Paul Kimball, director

Concert cosponsors:

  • James M. Morris; Downy Brand LLP
  • Stockton Symphony Alliance
  • Patrick Hobin
  • Douglas and Cheryl Hunt
  • Dr. and Mrs. Francis Ghidoni

Guest artist accommodations: Hal and Debbie Lurtsema

Viktor Ullmann
(1920–1998)

Overture to Der zerbrochene Krug (The Broken Jug)

Erwin Schulhoff
(1894–1942)

from Suite for Chamber Orchestra, op. 37
IV. Shimmy

Erwin Schulhoff

from Symphony No. 6, op. 94, “Symphony of Freedom”
I. Moderato maestoso

Gideon Klein
(1919–1945)
arr. Vojtěch Saudek

from Partita for Strings
II. Lento

Dmitri Shostakovich
(1906–1975)

from Symphony No. 13 in B-flat minor, op. 113, “Babi Yar”
I. Babi Yar: Adagio
Cedric Berry, bass-baritone
Combined Male Chorus from the Stockton Chorale, Delta
College, University of the Pacific, and Lincoln High School

Intermission

Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770–1827)

from Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op. 67
I. Allegro con brio

Hans Krása
(1899–1944)

Overture for Small Orchestra

John Williams
(b. 1932)

Theme from Schindler’s List

Poetry Recitation

Pavel Friedmann
(1921–1944)

The Butterfly
Imogen Cohen, reciter

Michael Tilson Thomas
(b. 1944)

from From the Diary of Anne Frank
Part Two
5. Dear Kitty. So much has happened . . .
6. Daddy began to tell us . . .
7. I feel wicked sleeping in a warm bed . . .
8. (Instrumental)
Imogen Cohen, narrator

Traditional arr.
John Williams
(b. 1932)

Hatikvah (Hope)

Leonard Bernstein
(1918–1990)
arr. Sid Ramin, Irwin Kostal

from West Side Story (Instrumental)
Somewhere (There’s a Place for Us)