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Louisville Orchestra remembers its concertmaster with an opera he performed in a Nazi concentration camp

JL;DR SUMMARY The Louisville Orchestra is commemorating its former concertmaster, Paul Kling, by performing the Holocaust-era opera 'Der Kaiser von Atlantis,' which he played in as a teenager at the Theresienstadt concentration camp. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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AuschwitzJewish ArtistsHolocaust MusicOperaTheresienstadtMusic RevivalLouisville OrchestraDer Kaiser Von AtlantisPaul KlingViktor Ullman

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Theresienstadt, Ústecký, Czechia
"Paul Kling was 14 when he played violin for a newly written opera, surrounded by sickness and death, in the Czech concentration camp of Theresienstadt."
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
"After the war he made his way to Kentucky, where he became concertmaster of the Louisville Orchestra in 1957."
Jerusalem, Israel
"An Israeli ensemble performs a musical piece composed by Jewish Holocaust victims during a concert organized at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, Nov. 21, 2016."

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