Holocaust victim's preserved music played
Photo credit: Newsday/Danielle Finkelstein | Temple Beth Sholom had a cantorial concert Thursday evening celebrating the debut of re-discovered liturgical music, thought to be lost during The Holocaust. The music, written by Cantor Shmuel Blasz in Hungary, was performed by six cantors, coming from various synagogues around Long Island, to perform together at the Smithtown Synagogue. (May 5, 2011)
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Shmuel Blasz, the chief cantor at a synagogue in Hungary, had written about half a dozen cantorial scores that a neighbor offered to hide when Blasz was sent to Auschwitz, where he, his wife and three of their eight children died in the Holocaust.
After the war, one of his surviving children, Eva Blasz Egri, returned to Hungary, retrieved the music, and kept it tucked away for decades even...
