NYC Awaits 'Melancholy Beauty' of Bulgarian Jews' Rescue

Society | June 26, 2011, Sunday // 17:42|  views

Soloist Neli Andreeva performs in “A Melancholy Beauty” at the Kennedy Center. Photo by Marc Apter for the Washington Post

The third and final premiere staging of the oratorio "A Melancholy Beauty," telling the story of the rescue of Bulgarian Jews during WWII is to be staged in New York Sunday evening.

The first two productions of the artistic commemoration of the events of the 1940s went down to general applause and awe at Washington DC's Kennedy Center Tuesday and Wang Theatre in Boston Thursday.

The third and final show is to be staged Sunday at NYC's Lincoln Center at 3 pm.

The oratorio, composed by Bulgarian Georgi Andreev with a libretto by Scott Cairns and Aryeh Finklestein, features performances by the US National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Indianapolis Children's Choir and the Bulgaria's Philip Kutev National Folklore Ensemble.

Reviews by editions ranging from the Washington Post to the Bulgarian Chicago-based paper EuroChicago have been enthusiastic.

They have been praising what they saw as a stirring union of classial music, Bulgarian folklore and Hebrew motifs to create a deep sense of respect for human courage, perseverance and dignity.

Tens of thousands of Bulgarian Jews were rescued in 1943, when MPs, clerics from the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and ordinary Bulgarians refused to send them to Nazi death camps.

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