Charlotte, Life? or Theater?

The Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra is proud to present a free concert performance of “Charlotte: Life? or Theater?,” book and lyrics by Elise Thoron and music by Gary S. Fagin, a one-act music-theater work based on the life and art of Charlotte Salomon, the German-Jewish painter who created an astonishing visual record of her life in Berlin and France in the 1940s and who lost her life in Auschwitz in 1943.

This special presentation, by a company of eight actors and an ensemble of KCO musicians, accompanied by projections of Charlotte’s art, will take place at the Museum of Jewish Heritage’s Safra Hall in Battery Park City, 5:00pm Sunday, May 31.

Charlotte Salomon created a uniquely personal and enduring work in the face of daunting suppression; her astonishing series of over 1,000 gouaches (click here to view her art work) is an inspiration not only for everyone involved in the creative arts, but for us all, especially in the challenging times in which we currently live.

Join us on May 31 for what will be a very special, memorable musical-dramatic event celebrating the power of art over the forces of oppression!

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