Fall Lecture: Murry Sidlin, The Defiant Requiem

Murry Sidlin, The Defiant Requiem
November 8
1:30–2:30 PM
In-Person at OLLI

Murry Sidlin is President and Artistic Director of The Defiant Requiem Foundation and creator of the concert-dramas Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín and Hours of Freedom: The Story of the Terezín Composer, and the play The Verdi Verdict (Mass Appeal, 1943). He lectures extensively on the arts and humanities as practiced by the prisoners in the Theresienstadt (Terezín) Concentration Camp.

Mr. Sidlin has been a conductor or artistic director of the Baltimore Symphony, the National Symphony Orchestra, the New Haven and Long Beach (California) Symphonies, the Tulsa Philharmonic, the Connecticut Ballet, the Cascade Festival of Music in Bend, Oregon, and the San Diego Symphony. He led 18 consecutive New Year’s Eve Gala concerts at the Kennedy Center with the National Symphony Orchestra. He was Dean of the School of Music at Catholic University where he still serves as Professor of Conducting and Instrumental Music. For 33 years, he was resident artist/teacher and associate director of conducting studies at the Aspen Music Festival and School.

In 2011 he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins. For his dedication to the legacy of Terezín, he has received the medal of St. Agnes of Bohemia from the Archbishop of Prague and the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Medal of Valor.

Reservations are required to attend in-person lectures. In-person lectures will be held in the Spring Valley Building, 4801 Massachusetts Ave. NW, in Room A on the First Floor. Registration for the above lecture will open here at 10:00 AM on the Friday prior to the lecture. The direct registration link will also be included in the Friday newsletter the week prior. You must have an OLLI account to register. If you do not have one, you can create an account when going to register. Each registrant may reserve up to two seats. Your name must be on the list of registrants to enter the lecture and you must be in your seat five minutes before the lecture starts to guarantee your seat.