Story of a haven from the holocaust Exploring the Human Spirit

The Great Neck Library is hosting a lecture named A haven from the holocaust: Washington Heights and the Jews of Europe by Dr. Linda F. Burghardt on March 16 at 2:00 p.m. at our Main Library, 159 Bayview Ave. in Great Neck.

Throughout the Holocaust, thousands of refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe sought healing and hope in Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood, making it home to the world’s largest German-Jewish community in the aftermath of the war.

What did Washington Heights offer them, and how did this iconic community help them become Americans?

Join us for a presentation about this unique neighborhood, one that offered the German and Austrian Jews and the other survivors who followed later the strength and resilience to overcome their inestimable loss.

Burghardt is the scholar-in-residence at the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center in Glen Cove and a journalist and author from Great Neck.

She worked as a freelance reporter for The New York Times for twenty years and is the author of three non-fiction books. Her articles and essays have appeared in newspapers across the U.S., and she has lectured to both national and international audiences on a variety of topics.

She holds a Ph.D. from LIU Post and is the daughter of Holocaust survivors from Vienna.

For more information, please contact Great Neck Library at (516) 4668055 or email adultprogramming@ greatnecklibrary.org.

The critically acclaimed American Chamber Ensemble, celebrating its 57th Anniversary, will perform Exploring the Human Spirit – Part 2 on Sunday, March 12 at 3 p.m. at Hofstra University’s Helene Fortunoff Theater in Monroe Lecture Center on California Avenue in Hempstead, presented by the University Music Department.

At this event, ACE will pay tribute to two musical icons, Stanley Drucker, legendary clarinetist and frequent guest artist with the American Chamber Ensemble and Herbert Deutsch, codeveloper of the Moog synthesizer and beloved former professor and chair of the Hofstra music department.

Composers to be performed in- clude Clara and Robert Schumann, Haydn, Glinka, Wilson. Gershwin and Deutsch.

Performers will include violinists

Eriko Sato and Deborah Wong, violist Lois Martin, cellist Chris Finckel, pianist Marilyn Lehman and clarinetist Mindy Dragovich. Very special guests will be soprano Tammy Hensrud and percussionist James Dragovich.

Tickets, available at the door, will be $20 general admission; $15 senior citizen (over 65) or matriculated nonHofstra student with ID. For ticket information, call 516-586-3433.

Directed by Marilyn Lehman, assisted by Mindy Dragovich, ACE was founded in 1965 by pianist Blanche

Abram and clarinetist Naomi Drucker. In residence at Hofstra University, the ensemble explores the great chamber music literature for piano, strings, woodwinds and voice and presents performances featuring world-class artists. ACE consists of the finest freelance musicians in the New York area and has been cited by critics for their superb presentations of chamber masterworks. Their latest CDs on Elysium are American Clarinet Treasures, featuring core members of ACE performing works by George Kleinsinger, Virgil Thomson, Daniel Gregory Mason, Elliott Carter, Douglas Moore and Gary Schocker, with guest artist Stanley Drucker and The American Chamber Ensemble Plays Peter Schickele, which features five of this modern master’s most important chamber works.

For the latest American Chamber Ensemble concert listings, updates and information, log on to http://americanchamberensemble.com/. Follow ACE on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/American-ChamberEnsemble/150032171984.

ACE’s concert season is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, as well as by individual contributions.

For more information about the American Chamber Ensemble, call Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-5863433 or email them at jamesarts@att. net.

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