Keith Powers
WHERE: online; recorded in Rockport Music’s Shalin Liu Performance Center
WHEN: Thursdays, Feb. 11–March 11, 7 p.m. Available through Sunday each week
TICKETS: Free. Visit musicfromthesuitcase.com
Some people can’t go home.
The family of violinist Yevgeny Kutik, a Belorussian Jew, fled Minsk in 1990. He was 5. They haven’t gone back.
After generations of violence against family members, during the long, notorious history of Russian anti-Semitism, they had had enough.
When they left, everyone got to bring two suitcases. Kutik’s mother, Alla Zernitskaya, filled one entirely with sheet music.
Those scores — Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Achron, Bloch and others — form the basis of Kutik’s documentary series, “Finding Home: Music from the Suitcase,” available for free on YouTube and FaceBook with a new episode each week through March 11.