Conductor Michael Hurshell and his New Jewish Chamber Philharmonic Dresden are in Israel to perform the works of Jewish composers whose music careers, and often lives, were destroyed by the Nazis.
‘I DECIDED it was time to do something about getting these composers better known, not so much for the film music but for the concert hall music which these composers wrote, and kept on writing, and was completely forgotten after they were outlawed [by the Nazis],’ says German conductor Michael Hurs(photo credit: STEFFEN GIERSCH)ByBARRY DAVISUpdated: