SAM Performs

Art and Defiance Sparks of Glory Concert With Commentary October 16, 2010 2–3:30 pm Plestcheeff Auditorium

SAM's Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris exhibition inspires this concert with commentary, as Music of Rememberance Artistic Director Mina Miller examines the power of art and music to speak against opression.

Picasso's life and art reflect his passionate engagement with world events and forces; Guernica remains one of the most powerful statements about war's barbarity and wholesale destruction. Of Guernica's time are Erwin Schuloff's "Duo" and Ernest Bloch's "Nigun". Schuloff, like Picasso, an audacious innovator, was deeply influenced by the artistic disillusionment following WWI, while Bloch left Europe for America in the 1930s, as a reaction to growing Nazi persecution.

This is a free event.