2019: TWO PIANOS AT RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, NEWARK NJ

 

An audience of over 200 attended the 27 October event at the Paul Robeson Campus Center, which included an expanded exhibit (2 PM), concert documentary performance  (3 PM), and post-performance audience discussion (4:15 PM) followed by a reception. Video excerpts from prior Two Pianos performances plus 1987 Holocaust testimony of Halina's daughter Jola Hoffman also were displayed.  Attendees were greeted by background music from Halina's Newark concert performances. 

 

The highlights clip above expands the Halina-Jola story and their later lives in Newark.  A full-length DVD of this live performance is available.

 

Our special thanks to Kean University for access to digital footage from Jola's 1987 Holocaust Oral History video interview, now in the archives of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington DC).

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Halina discusses and plays Chopin, Rutgers-Newark, 1974 [coming]