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Save the Date: OPUS 2015 Camp is Sunday, August 2, through Saturday, August 8

We’re just trying to catch our breath from this year’s wonderful camp, but it’s not too early to mark your calendar for next year’s camp. It will be Sunday, August 2nd, through Saturday, August 8th. Check back here for more details over the next few months!

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Mark Your Calendar: Listen to Our Young Artists Concert – August 9th

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2013 “Listen to Our Young Artists Concert” is Going to be Aired on NCTV Channel 17

Part 1 is going to be shown:
  • Sat May 3   10 AM
  • Sun May 4   930 AM/ 830 PM
  • Mon May 5  730 PM
People without cable access to NCTV channel 17 can watch it live stream online.
And Parts 2, 3, 4 and 5 will follow — simply check NCTV’s schedule to find the showtimes.

 

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Oscar Winner: that The Lady In Number 6 – Music Saved My Life

The Documentary Short subject Oscar winner Lady in Number 6: How Music Saved My Life about the late Alice Herz Sommer, who died Sunday in a London hospital at the age of 110, has just been acquired by Netflix. Those wishing to see the picture can on do so on April 1 in the U.S. and Canada exclusively on Netflix.

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“Music is a dream. It brings peace, beauty and love. It is the first place of art…. I am full of joy in my heart. I am the only one laughing in this house.”

Herz Sommer, a concert pianist, was the oldest living Holocaust survivor and had stayed alive in a Nazi concentration camp by giving piano recitals. Her mother and husband perished in Nazi camps. The documentary shares her very positive philosophy of life about how she maintained her happiness despite enduring pure evil.

The 38-minute film began its theatrical release in 100 specialty theaters in select markets this past Friday, Feb. 21 via HD Shorts. It is also set for playdates internationally. Herz Sommer, was an accomplished concert pianist and music teacher in Prague who became a prisoner in Theresienstadt after Nazis invaded her country in 1943. Her mother, her husband and their six year-old son were transported to camps where her husband and her mother would lose their lives. After she and her little boy were liberated, she returned to performing professionally and her son also became a concert cellist. He died later, leaving his mother to survive him. The documentary is executive produced by Phillip Goldfine, Larry Abramson, Frederic Bohbot, Christopher Branch and Timothy Marlowe executive produced. The Oscar show is this Sunday, March 2nd.

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2014 OPUS Camp Poster

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OPUS to exhibit in Summer Opportunity Fair at York Community High School on January 16

OPUS’ Chair of Committees, Audra Meiliulyte, her daughter Elena, and a number of camp family parents and young artists living in the Elmhurst-Oak Brook-Hinsdale-LaGrange-Villa Park areas will support OPUS by participating in an exhibition in the Summer Opportunity Fair to be held from 6 to 8 PM, on Thursday January 16, 2014.  The event is hosted by the Elmhurst School District PTA.  OPUS Chamber Music Camp Music Director, Mr. Ray Ostwald, is the Orchestra Director of York Community High School.  OPUS is certainly happy to support an opportunity on Mr. Ostwald’s turf, and to encourage young musicians to come and learn chamber music and make new friends at the OPUS Summer Music Camp. Please stop by our table and say hi. For more information, click here.