The Oradea State Philharmonic will present on Thursday, in the Sion Neolog Synagogue, the concert Shalom chaverim, with Jewish musical works, dedicated to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, set for January 27.
The orchestra will be conducted by the Philharmonic Orchestra's principal conductor, Lorenzo Moroni, and the evening's guest soloists will be the Hungarian singer Szabo Elisabeta, cellist Victor Stanciu and clarinet player Alexandru Bolganschi.
"'Shalom Chaverim' is one of the regular concerts of the Oradea State Philharmonic season. The concert is an event closely connected with the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, set on January 27, a date proposed by the State of Israel in 2005. It is not by chance that this day was chosen, as it represents the liberation of the largest Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau by the Soviet army in 1945," the Philharmonic's press release states.
The program includes almost 20 Jewish works, coming from classical or traditional music, such as "Shalom Aleichem", "Eli Zion", "The Wonder Rabbis", "Rhapsody on Moldavian folk themes", "Israel Shalom", the traditional Jewish hymn "Hine ma tov" (trans. ), "Hevenu shalom aleihem" ("I have brought you peace"), "Ale Brider" ("All brothers"), the folk-rock song Hallelujah, the Russian Jewish folk and love song Tumbalalaika.
The concert is scheduled to take place in the Sion Neolog Synagogue, a tourist attraction today, located in Independence Street no. 22, a space for contemporary arts, after the old temple building was rehabilitated by the Oradea City Hall in a cross-border project in partnership with the Debrecen Jewish Community. An eclectic construction, built in 1878, after the architecture plan of Busch David and Kálmán Rimanóczy Sr., the largest synagogue in Romania and the third largest in Europe, was completely rehabilitated with an investment of about 1.25 million EUR. AGERPRES