While the narrative of the Creation might be familiar to concert audiences from the works of Haydn and, in more recent years, Aaron Copland, Jacques Cohen’s approach to his own version is a unique blend that intersperses biblical text with the more sobering verse of such twentieth-century poets as Louis MacNeice and Franta Bass, a Czech Jew, who was murdered at Auschwitz at the age of 14. The concert commemorates the life of Christine Didelot, a passionate and dedicated member of several ... continue reading...