Title

The Palestine Orchestra Program

Authors

Object ID

2015.2.17

Object Name

Program, Concert

Date

1937

Files

Description

20 pages with orange text and graphic of menorah on cover

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:Huberman was a brilliant Jewish Polish violinist, remembered as much for founding the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra as he is for his music. Having visited Palestine in 1929, he began to think of establishing a symphony orchestra there. After the Nazi rise to power in 1933, and understanding the threat to Jewish musicians in Europe, he recruited Europe's leading Jewish musicians and their families to come to Palestine and form the Palestine Symphony Orchestra. If it had not been for Huberman's foresight, many of these musicians and their families would have doubtless perished in the Holocaust. The first concert was held on December 26, 1936 with maestro Arturo Toscanini as conductor. Toscanini, already a world famous conductor by this time, had gained repute by refusing to perform in Nazi Germany in protest of their policies. While Huberman did not perform with Toscanini in 1936, they were re-united in 1938 and both performed together.

Dimensions

9 1/2 x 6 3/4"

Keywords

Arturo Toscanini, Bronislaw Huberman, music, menorah

Subcollection

Orchestra

Recommended Citation

"The Palestine Orchestra Program" (1937). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2015.2.17.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1834