Lev Aronson is remembered as a distinguished cellist,
teacher, and survivor of the Holocaust. Born February 7, 1912 in München
Gladbach (now Mönchengladbach), Germany, the story of Aronson’s life and music
serve as inspiration for countless students and fans, well beyond his death in
1988. With his family forced from their home in Latvia during World War I and
losing five years of his life to the camps of World War II, Aronson endured one
of the darkest times in human history, surviving these events to bring beauty to
the world through music.
The exhibit “A Testimony through Music: The Compositions of
Lev Aronson” conveys the story of his Aronson’s life through his sheet music, the
collection of which is available for research at the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special
Collections & University Archives at Jackson Library. This exhibit features
several musical manuscripts, composed by Aronson, relating to his experiences
in the Nazi and Russian labor camps. Included among these pieces are vocal
works in Yiddish focused upon his experiences during the war, as well as two
concert pieces for cello composed by Aronson and signed with his inmate
identification number. The exhibit will be available for viewing from October 3rd,
2016 to March 31st, 2017.
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