From: Isabelle Horowitz (Thu, 31 Aug 2000 00:36)

I missed the beginning of the program on PBS ... but it was great. I usually have a great deal of difficulty listening or watching yiddish programs because during world war 2 I was hidden with my sister in a convent.

The voices were glorious and I think the documentary was very well done.

When did you go on this tour? My mother was born in LODZ.

Where can I purchase your Cds and what is the price? I am particulary interested in the songs sung in Yiddish since I still speak it and make myself think in Yiddish because I don't want to forget such a beautiful language.

Isabelle Horowitz., MPH
Easton, MD

From: John Emery and Ilana T. Hardesty (Thu, 31 Aug 2000 08:51:30)

We caught most of the program when Channel 2 broadcast it last week and we both thought it was terrific -- one of the most moving (and certainly the most musical) things I've seen on TV.

It particularly stood out among the dross of fund raising programming. That's why we caught "most" instead of all of it. We'd tune away as soon as they started the distasteful job of comparing your confronting of cosmic tragedy to their need to meet a year-end budget.

Congratulations. I hope they show it sometime without interruptions.

John M. Emery & Ilana T. Hardesty

From: Carolyn Sawyer (Thu, 24 Aug 2000 21:51:49)

I am not very often lost for words, but this is a time. The music, the wonderful documentary...the scenes at Auschwitz and Terezin...I can't imagine the incredible emotions you all experienced as you sang there. So many of your choir had a family member, or a friend of a friend who perished there. How awful and how beautiful. Your music was a prayer and a memorial.

Of course, I had to pledge membership so that I can have a video. In Hamilton-Wenham, at the middle school where I teach and conduct, we have a grade 8 curriculum unit that focuses on "Justice"....and the Holocaust is the main focus. I always connect in my music classes, and this concert tour video will be so powerful...to see and hear that music transcends time and history.

I am an organist, and I work in my church in Boxford and conduct the choir. I really celebrate the continuity of both of our faiths, and the common bond of music.

Carolyn Sawyer

From: Chitrita Banerji (Thu, 24 Aug 2000 22:44:02)

I just finished watching the 'GBH program on your group's journey to Europe and the amazing music you made there to celebrate your heritage and honor those who are gone. The producer of the program, Eric Stange, is a dear friend and he had told me about the program in advance. But the actual experience of seeing it was so moving that I can't describe it.

I am not Jewish. I am a Hindu woman from Calcutta. But your music (to which the tragedy of the Jewish people has added such dimension) moved me unbelievably. I can't tell you how many times I found myself crying. That is why, though we are strangers, I wanted to personally write and thank you and your fellow singers. As one of your songs said, as long as there is one Jewish voice....

My family had a strong tradition of ecstatic religious music. In my childhood, that was how we worshipped. Now, as part of a diaspora, we are scattered here and there and the music only lives in the memories of some of us. But as long as one person remembers, it lives.

Sincerely,
Chitrita Banerji

From: Saul Grand (8/11/00 1:20:56 PM)

I saw your performance on PBS and it was most impressive and exceedingly well done. Congratulations.

Saul Grand
Valley Stream, NY

From: Lanny Druker (8/13/00 9:19:47 PM)

What a tribute to our brothers and sisters who lost their lives just because of who they were. May God have Mercy on those who did this to our People. Your Music was a prayer to those who lost their lives in the Death Camps.

Shalom
Lanny Druker

From: Margaret Berman (Mon, 14 Aug 2000 01:29:37)

I saw your show on our local PBS station here in Sacramento, CA - KVIE Channel 6 and I can't rave enough about it. It brought tears to my eyes throughout the whole show. This is the music I grew up with and my children grew up with. If I were younger and living on the East Coast I would ask to audition for the chorale. I was brought up with this kind of music and sang in my synagogue choir for umpteen years.

I wish I could find out when it will be presented again so I can tape it. It was just marvelous. Please keep up the good work.

Margaret Berman
Sacramento, CA

From: Sarah Joy Williams (Sun, 13 Aug 2000 20:01:23)

I am a Jewish female college graduate just returning from a three week journey through Israel, still feeling the tingle of the homeland. I just caught the Zamir: Jewish voices return to Poland special on PBS and I wanted to thank you for putting together such a brilliant tour for Jews. I didn't realize how important it was to see or hear or even feel our heritage until I went to Israel. Your show helps initiate that feeling for me.

Thank you

Sincerely,
Sarah Joy Williams
New York, New York

From: Robert Mishkin (9 Aug 2000 20:37:59)

To my great loss, I only recently learned about Zamir Chorale; how I wish I had learned of your wondeful Chorale sooner. The local PBS featured a program on the Zamir Chorale, and showed a video that you had made of the Eastern European tour. I believe that it also featured the songs on your CD "The songs Live On." Anyway, I was so moved by your video, from joy to tears, it was such an emotional and deep experience, both in Faith and in music. I looked in your catalog for this video but I didn't see it listed. I would so eager and happy and appreciative to be able to purchase this, it was such an experience. Could I be informed if this video is available; It would be appreciated down to the depths of my soul. I was so moved.

From: Edward Katz (6 Aug 2000 19:47:07)

I have just watched the PBS broadcast of your European tour. Congratulations! The performances were outstanding, and the emotional impact of the tour on your members was obvious. I only wished that I lived in Boston so that I could audition for membership.

Edward Katz, M.D.
Montreal, Quebec

(former member of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra Chorus and the St. Lawrence Choir)

From: Martin Fors (6 Aug 2000 19:04:12)

Hello,

I was greatly moved and blessed by the program on PBS today of the Boston Zamir Chorale's trip to Poland. I am a United Methodist pastor here in Vermont. I sing with the North Country Chorus. The songs which were sung and shared by Zamir were wonderful, moving and connected me with an tragic part of human history. But the music composers and the music itself brought transcendence without forgetting the tragedy. Thank you for all you have done and will do in teaching the world through music. marty

Rev. Martin R. Fors
Grace United Methodist Church

From: James E. Harris (6 Aug 2000 19:38:55)

We were just watching a program on PBS about your tour in Poland. I was wondering how much it would cost to get you to do a concert here in Keene, NH? You guys were wonderful!!!

James E. Harris
Monadnock Regional High School