Music of Dutch Jewish composers

“ the Ghosts: Holland and WW II,” a two-part concert and film event honoring four Dutch Jewish composers suppressed or killed in the Holocaust and Holland’s resistance efforts, takes place Saturday, Sept. 5, 7 p.m., at Temple Sinai. Held prior to Selichot, “Meeting the Ghosts” resurrects the music of Leo Smit, Nico Richter, Rosy Wertheim and Dick Kattenburg in concert. The lineup features Smit’s “Suite Pour Piano,” 1926; Richter’s “Two Pieces for Violin and Piano,” 1942; Wertheim’s “Sonatine for Cello,” 1906; and Kattenburg’s “Roemeense Melodie,” 1944. California-based musicians Edgar David Lopez Artunduaga (clarinet), Rebecca Chung (violin), Ira Glansbeek (cello), Gigi Rabe (accordion) and Lynn Hutchinson (piano) will perform. Smit perished in Sobibor in 1943. Kattenburg was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944. Richter survived Auschwitz and […]