A SYMPHONY OF LIVES NEWSLETTER, Issue 1, Summer 2003
What’s New
 A significant music collaboration is planned for The Inextinguishable Symphony Project. Sam Adler of the Juilliard School is our Project’s music director. Sam will arrange and score music for the film and help plan the Symphony Tour. Leonard Slatkin of the NSO has generously offered to conduct the music for the film.

Our Project Web site has launched. Please visit www.tisproject.com.

Companion Programs
Plans and budgets are prepared for each of the Documentary Film’s Companion Programs, including the Traveling Exhibition, Companion Book, Symphony Tour, and Education Program. The schedule for the programs depends on funding.

The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York offered to launch the Traveling Exhibition and Symphony Tour. The museum will work with us in establishing interest with other venues.

If you are interested in discussing these programs, please contact us at info@tisproject.com.

 Support, Support, Support
Thank you WUSA TV 9, Washington, DC’s CBS affiliate, for hosting Martin Goldsmith and Gail Prensky on their June 19th morning news and strongly encouraging viewers’ support for the Project.

Thank you Margie Blumberg and the Kol Shalom congregation for offering to host events in the autumn to raise support and interest for the Project in the Maryland and Washington, DC area. Contributions from these events will go towards filming interviews by year’s end.

We need to film interviews with Kulturbund survivors. Our list includes more than 35 people as far as Australia, Israel, Uruguay, Europe, and as close as the United States. Our goal is to film 20 interviews by year’s end. $10,000 will provide a one-day session in an international location or a one-day session each in two domestic locations.

Please email us at info@tisproject.com or call 202.333.8624 if you or anyone you know is interested in hosting an event, making a tax-deductible contribution, or sponsoring The Inextinguishable Symphony Project.

Honorary Board
Stuart E. Eizenstat
Patricia Schroeder

Advisory Board
Philip V. Bohlman
Alice Kelley
Hana Umlauf Lane
David Marwell
Sylvia Rogge-Gau
Ned Rorem
Daniel Asa Rose
Ori Soltes
Jerome Shestack
Leonard Slatkin
Bret Werb
Eugenia Zukerman
 

Project Resources
American and International Societies of Yad Vashem

Association for Performing Arts Presenters

German Embassy to the United States

Goethe-Insitut Inter Nationes

Hebrew Union College, New York

Jewish Museum Berlin

JewishGen, Inc.
Museum of

Jewish Heritage
Museum

Foundation-Visual History Archives

Stiftung Archiv der Akademie der Künste, Berlin

U. S. Embassy and Consulates, Germany

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

 
Kulturbund News
Violinist Henry Meyer is recovering well in a rehabilitative center in Cincinnati. Henry was the victim of a nearfatal hit-and-run car accident while crossing the street after leaving the Cincinnati Music Conservatory in late February 2003.

Sam Adler, the son of Hugo Adler, the former cantor and Kulturbund musician and composer in Mannheim, will share original music compositions written for the Kulturbund by his father and a few other musicians.

Silvia Tennenbaum, daughter of conductor William Steinberg, shed new light on Martin’s story. Dr. Uri Toeplitz, 90, healthy and living in Israel, was the flutist that Gunther Goldschmit replaced at the Frankfurt Kulturbund. Dr. Toeplitz left Germany with a group of Kulturbund musicians to Palestine in 1936. This group was the nucleus of the newly formed Palestine Symphony (which later became the Israeli Philharmonic). Their conductor was William Steinberg of the Frankfurt Kulturbund.