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The Colburn School Launches Digital Archive Of Herbert Zipper And Trudl Dubsky Zipper
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 28, 2024

The Colburn School has launched a digital archive celebrating the legacies of music pioneer and Holocaust survivor Herbert Zipper and renowned dancer and teacher Trudl Dubsky Zipper, preserving their contributions to the arts.

Review: ASTORIA, Jack Studio Theatre
by Gary Naylor - Mar 31, 2023

Tony Britten's play is funny and moving if, at times, tricky to follow

Colburn School's RECOVERED VOICES Performances Feature Works by Composers Whose Legacies and Lives Were Destroyed by the Nazi Regime
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 29, 2023

The Colburn School's Ziering-Conlon Initiative for Recovered Voices,  a unique Colburn resource that encourages greater awareness and more frequent performances of music by composers whose careers and lives were destroyed by the Nazi regime, brings important repertory back to life through four upcoming performances that feature the works of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Arnold Schoenberg, Franz Schreker, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Herbert Zipper.

Colburn School Awarded Federal Grant to Preserve Archives of Music Pioneer, Dachau Survivor Herbert Zipper
by Stephi Wild - Jan 24, 2023

As Holocaust Remembrance Day approaches, The Colburn School is proud to announce that it has received a prestigious Save America's Treasures grant to preserve and digitize the Herbert and Trudl Zipper Archive at Colburn. Herbert Zipper, for whom Colburn's Zipper Hall is named, was a pioneer of the community music movement and had a deep commitment that every student should be able to participate in the performing arts.