May 03 - 04 2018
Iron & Coal

Iron & Coal

Presented by Strathmore at Music Center at Strathmore

Music & Text by Jeremy Schonfeld
Directed by Kevin Newbury
Music Direction by David Bloom
Animation by Tom Seltzer

Featuring Jeremy Schonfeld, Rinde Eckert, and Contemporaneous
Also featuring Alexandria Harmonizers, Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras of Strathmore, Young Artists of America, and Strathmore Children’s Chorus

Produced by Strathmore and Beth Morrison Projects

Promotional partners:
The Defiant Requiem Foundation
Bender JCC of Greater Washington

Iron & Coal is a powerful new theatrical concert by acclaimed composer and performer Jeremy Schonfeld. Taking inspiration from his father’s memoir, Iron & Coal strives to find meaning in a life and relationship built from the ashes after Schonfeld’s father spent a year in the Auschwitz concentration camp at the age of ten. The ghosts of a distant and vanished world, both of horror and the iron will to survive, mix with the present in this remarkable world-premiere production.

Using projections, animation, a rock band, chamber orchestra, and over 120 adult and youth voices, this larger-than-life production celebrates the indomitable spirit of our ancestors and the legacy we carry with us.

Admission Info

$43 - $77 + Producer Ticket

Phone: 301-581-5100

Email: strathmore@strathmore.org

Dates & Times

2018/05/03 - 2018/05/04

Location Info

Music Center at Strathmore

5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD 20852

Parking Info

For full parking information and directions, please visit www.strathmore.org/your-visit/directions-and-parking

Parking in the Grosvenor-Strathmore Metro garage is $5.20 during the week and free on weekends. Strathmore is also accessible via Metro's Red Line, Grosvenor-Strathmore station.

Limited short-term parking also is available at specially marked meters along Tuckerman Lane, which do not require payment after 7pm.