Ronald Blum

Ronald Blum is an author at Religion News Service.

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Aaron Zigman’s ‘Émigré’ oratorio, about Jews who fled Nazi Germany for Shanghai, has US premiere

By Ronald Blum — March 4, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) — His 90-minute, two-act work, given its U.S. premiere by the New York Philharmonic on Thursday night, evokes a World War II-era sound reminiscent of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.
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