JU Orchestra performs in historic, moving concert at the Times-Union’s Jacoby Hall

Jacksonville University’s full orchestra and the Jacksonville Children’s Chorus choirs teamed up March 9 at the Florida Times-Union Performing Arts Center’s Jacoby Symphony Hall for a concert, “I Never Saw Another Butterfly” — a musical memorial to the thousands of children who passed through Teresienstadt concentration camp iduring World War II n what is now the Czech Republic on their journey to the their deaths in the German Nazis’ Auschwitz extermination camp in Poland.

“This was a first for the Jacksonville University Orchestra — playing on the stage of Jacoby Symphony Hall!” said Marguerite Richardson, JU’s orchestra director and assistant professor of strings. “It was a very moving event and it was really significant to the JU students in the orchestra. It was also our first ever collaboration with the Jacksonville Children’s Chorus.”

Here are more photos from the performance, and a picture from the rehearsal: