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- From Russia to the Cape of Good Hope: Jewish Music Bypassing the Holocaust
From Russia to the Cape of Good Hope: Jewish Music Bypassing the Holocaust
Dr Stephen Muir
25 September 2015
7.40pm-8pm
Barley Hall (map)
FREE admission
No booking requiredWheelchair accessible
Event details
In 1928 composer Froim Spektor fled Russia for South Africa. Among his possessions was an extraordinary folder containing both his own music and music by some of the most important Jewish composers of his generation, long thought lost, but now revealed anew as part of a major international research project.