More than 300 performers will participate in the premiere of the Oratorio "A Melancholy Beauty," June 21 at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall in Washington D.C.
"The performance will commemorate the historic but litle-known rescue of Bulgaria's 49,000 Jews from the Holocaust by ordinary ctizens who rose up in civil disobedience and demanded of the King and Parliament that Bulgria's Jews be spared ...," according to a news release from Songs of Life.
No Bulgarian Jews went to the concentration camps, the release states.
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Songs of Life is an international music festival that musically tells the story of little-known events of heroism
"The oratorio is a choral-orchestral work for mixed choir, children's choir, symphony orchestra, soloist, narrator, folk vocal ensemble and indigenous folk instruments," the release states.
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The oratorio was composed by Bulgarian composer Georgi Andreev.
Later in June, this concert will be performed in Boston and New York City.
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