The Lost Rhapsody – World Premiere Event!

**A World War II Survival Story and Musical Legacy**
A Secret wartime diary…
A long-lost orchestral masterpiece…
A remarkable tale of survival…
**The Rhapsody**

2:15 pm Pre-talk with Professor Amy Simon,
_William and Audrey Farber Endowed Chair in Holocaust Studies and European
Jewish History, MSU’s Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies
and Modern Israel, James Madison College, and Department of History. _
3:00 pm Film, Concert, Talkback
Immediately following the film will be a live performance of Leo Spellman’s
24-minute symphonic masterpiece,
**“Rhapsody 1939-1945.”**
MSU Symphony, conducted by Octavio Más-Arocas, Associate Professor of Music,
Director of Orchestras, at Michigan State University, will perform the piece
that was lost and forgotten for more than 50 years.
Talkback with film’s producers and Rabbi Eli Mayerfeld, CEO of the Zekelman
Holocaust Center.

**$18 each and can be purchased by visiting** https://tickets.jccdet.org/the-lost-rhapsody-a-musical-legacy
For more information, please text or call: (248) 406-6677.

**Program made possible through a “Making Music Happen” grant from The Center
for Arts and Culture at JCC Association, in collaboration with the Lenore
Marwil Detroit Jewish Film Festival, SAJE (Seminars for Adult Jewish
Enrichment), the Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and
Modern Israel at MSU, and The Zekelman Holocaust Center.**

Organized by: Detroit Jewish Film Festival, The J, The Berman Theater

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