From the website of Composer Lauren Bernofsky:

THE MENSCH is an in-progress grand opera about Sergeant Anton Schmid, an unsung hero from the Holocaust. Act I is set in Schmid's hometown of Vienna, Austria, where he runs an electrical shop. Act II takes place in Vilna, Lithuania, where he has been stationed after being drafted into the Wehrmacht. He uses his position and resources to save approxmiately 300 Jews of the Vilna ghetto, of course at great risk to himself.

This work is scored for numerous soloists and an opera chorus, including children. Lauren Bernofsky is both the composer and librettist. A piano-vocal score of Act 1 has been completed, and the finished opera will be scored for full orchestra.

For more from the composer visit their website here.

St. Paul’s Choir, alongside orchestra and organ, present excerpt from Handel’s “Messiah” and Bach’s “Magnificat.” Erin Koolman will serve as featured soloist in both of these time-honored, and well-loved pieces, including Handel’s “O thou that tallest good tidings” and Bach’s “Esurientes.”

St. Paul’s Choir continues the longstanding Christian tradition of singing evening prayers. The October service will include works by John Joubert, Margaret Burk, Edward Naylor, and Gustav Holst. After the choral presentation will be a short organ recital featuring current students of Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.

A service for All Faithful Departed. St. Paul’s choir, along with orchestra and organ present this piece of reflection for the those who have departed this world. Erin Koolman will serve as a featured Mezzo-Soprano soloist.

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St. Paul’s Choir continues the longstanding Christian tradition of singing evening prayers. The October service will include works by John Sheppard, Margaret Burk, K. Leighton, and H. Willan. After the choral presentation will be a short organ recital featuring current students of Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.

The Columbus Indiana Philharmonic will be performing Brahms Requiem (English Translation). Featuring Soprano, Cathy Berns Rund, and Baritone, Bruno Sandes.

For tickets visit the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic website.

Performing on friend and colleague, Amy William’s Doctoral Recital. Erin will be featured as Octavian in the trio finale of Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss. Also featured will be Frances Van Buren as Sophie and Amy Williams as The Marschallin.

Round 2. This recital was originally meant to take place March of 2020, but due to Covid was postponed until now. I am thrilled to be able to perform this Liederabend alongside collaborative pianist, Claudia Santana-Nuñez. Featured in this recital is Robert Schumann’s Frauen-liebe und leben, a Fünf Lieder cycle by Alma Mahler, and another Fünf Lieder by Alexander Zemlinsky. Live streaming is provided by IUMusicLive! at the following link https://iumusiclive.music.indiana.edu .

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