Vancouver Academy of Music remembers Holocaust with Songs of the Wasteland

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      Sometimes history is so unspeakable that music is the only form that can do it justice.

      Such may be the case with the Vancouver Academy of Music’s presentation of Songs of the Wasteland, which tells the story of Holocaust survivor Renia Perel. Performed on the eve of UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the poetic song cycle is brought to cathartic life by the academy’s faculty with leading Vancouver musicians, along with two vocalists: soprano Robyn Driedger-Klassen and baritone Mark Fenster, the latter the son of two Holocaust survivors.

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