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Concert to benefit Tree of Life victims fund

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Among Europe’s more prominent young composers heading into the 1930s were Viktor Ullmann and Erwin Schulhoff, and if you never have heard of them, you’re in the vast majority.

Both were Jewish. Both died in Nazi concentration camps. And although the work of each has been perpetuated to some degree, neither is as well known today as he otherwise might have been.

Enter the Clarion Quartet, a group of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra musicians whose debut album, “Breaking the Silence,” features the music of Ullmann and Schulhoff along with their contemporary, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who managed to escape from Austria and continue his career in the United States.

The quartet is scheduled to perform at 7 p.m. Tuesday as part of the Sunnyhill Live! cultural arts program at Unitarian Universalist Church of the South Hills in Mt. Lebanon. The concert originally had been planned for October but was rescheduled.

The members of the Clarion Quartet, colleagues in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, share a passion for chamber music and a desire to bring justice to creative voices that were silenced by political oppression.

A percent of ticket sales will be donated to the Tree of Life Victims and Family Account administrated through the First National Bank of Pennsylvania. The account was created by the Tree of Life – Or L’Simcha Congregation in Squirrel Hill following the Oct. 27 mass shooting at the synagogue.

The Tuesday night performance takes place in the church’s 220-seat sanctuary of the Unitarian Universalist Church of the South Hills, which is wheelchair-accessible. Service dogs welcome. Tickets are available at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3603492.

The Sunnyhill Live! series continues at 7:30 p.m. March 30 with performances by four Pittsburgh-area artists: Heather Kropf, Christopher Mark Jones, Ben Shannon and Brad Yoder.

For more information, visit sunnyhill.org or facebook.com/UUCSH/.

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