Narrator: Leonard Nimoy

PROVIDENCE

The Times:
"Noted director and actor Leonard Nimoy narrates a concert to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium on Nov. 9."

"Shining Through Broken Glass", co-sponsored by Temple Emanu-El and the Holocaust Education and Resource Centre of Rhode Island, was held exactly 70 years to the day when the Nazi regime terrorized Jewish enclaves in Germany and Austria, marking the start of the Holocaust.

The concert featured both dramatic and vocal elements designed to highlight 1,000 years of Jewish music, culture and art while giving meaning to the lessons of the Holocaust, organizers say.
The concert featured an ecumenical choir with over 200 voices from synagogues, churches, schools and colleges, four soloists and a 40-piece orchestra.
"This concert has been in the making for 10 years," said Cantor Dr. Brian Mayer of Temple Emanu-El. "I knew we needed some spectacular way of paying tribute to the millions of Jews, gays and lesbians, gypsies and anyone not considered to be 'Aryan enough' who perished in the Holocaust."
The concert featured more than 30 musical selections, including the work of renowned Viennese cantor Salomon Sulzer and Berlin composer Louis Lewandowski. Composer Arnold Schoenberg's "Survivor of Warsaw", which demonstrates the horrors of the Holocaust, was performed by Nimoy, the orchestra and an all-male choir.

Left (Left to Right): Elaine & Barry Fain, concert co-chairs; Leonard Nimoy, director of "Shining Through Broken Glass"; Debbie & Ellis Waldman, concert co-chairs.