A piano-vocal duo dedicated to sharing music by Jewish artists from the Holocaust & educating about Jewish representation in music.
“With recurring motifs of springtime, dreams, suffering, and lost love, beautiful melodies are a vehicle for biting irony and devastating truth. This musical journey is a revealing snapshot of the inner creative life of Jews detained in these Lithuanian camps: their hopes, tragedies, and above all their defiant engagement with life itself.”
— Lynn Slotkin, The Slotkin Letter
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The Shoah Songbook Sheds a Little Likht on the Past
“…The Shoah Songbook made for a genuinely entertaining evening of music regardless of its topical relevance. The pieces had much to recommend them, and due credit must be given to the work of Nate Ben-Horin in arranging many of these selections. I hardly need to mention that Jaclyn Grossman’s voice is something to write home about when she gets going, but I’ll say it anyway. She was as always a commanding presence through all the highs and lows of the performance.”
Kultura Collective: Meet Likht Ensemble
Likht (ליכט, “light”) Ensemble is Jaclyn Grossman and Nate Ben-Hori, a piano-vocal duo whose goal is to uncover and disseminate music by Jewish composers from the Holocaust. In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, on January 27, 2024 they will present The Shoah Songbook live with the Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company. We caught up with Jaclyn and Nate to learn more about the project, performing music from the Holocaust, and their shared love of New York style bagels.
The Likht Ensemble Tells The Story Of “The Shoah Songbook”
Likht Ensemble joins Ray Bassett on “Scenic Roots” on WUTC 88.1 to discuss their upcoming Shoah Songbook recitals in collaboration with the Chattanooga Public Libraries and the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera. The two upcoming recitals feature rarely performed music composed by Jewish artists during the Holocaust, heard in Chattanooga for the first time this week.
The Likht Ensemble is Charting a New Course Through the Classical Canon
Before they founded The Likht (ליכט, “light”) Ensemble, pianist Nate Ben-Horin and Soprano Jaclyn Grossman “had no idea there was a musical world in the Holocaust.” Since 2020, the piano-vocal duo has made it their mission to uncover and share previously lost repertoire by Jewish composers from the Holocaust.
THE SCOOP | Association For Opera In Canada Announces Finalists For New Works Pitch Pittsburgh
The Association for Opera in Canada (AOC) has announced the finalists for the 2023 edition of the New Canadian Works Pitch Program, funded by the Azrieli Foundation. The program gives the participants an opportunity to pitch their works to potential collaborators at the Opera America Conference, including producers, co-producers, co-commissioners and presenters.
The Likht Ensemble at the Leah Posluns Theatre
Jaclyn Grossman and Nate Ben-Horin were joined by violinist Daniel Temnik which certainly added some interesting colours to the vocal rep and allowed the inclusion of some instrumental works such as two polonaises by Szymon Laks arranged for violin and piano… Besides this there were songs by trained composers and folkier pieces by other deportees. It was a nice balance and owed a lot to Nate’s skilful arrangements… Jaclyn (whose voice is sounding better than ever) and Nate own this music and we got nuanced, moving accounts of all the songs definitely enhanced by Daniel on violin.
