WHEN:
January 27, 2025
WHERE:
Benaroya Hall
Seattle
TICKETS:
For more information and tickets visit the Music of Remembrance website.
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
"...Art From Ashes emphasizes the vital musical contributions made within the walls of Nazi concentration camps, demonstrating the expansive capacity of artists to create, even in the face of insurmountable injustice. This free concert at Benaroya Hall is an annual gift to the community, featuring the outstanding artists of the MOR chamber ensemble, drawn from the Seattle Symphony, and vibrant local partners including Northwest Boychoir and Seattle Girls Choir. The program is emblematic of MOR’s mission to ensure that both the music and the lessons of the Holocaust are not lost….
“...Audiences will hear music by Erwin Schulhoff, an audaciously original voice whose music was banned as “degenerate” during the early days of the Reich, as well as cabaret-style songs that prisoners in the Terezín concentration camp dared to write and perform, often secretly under the noses of their captors. Soulful songs from Lithuania’s Vilna Ghetto will be performed alongside new arrangements constructed from actual performances by the Men’s Auschwitz Orchestra, which was forced to play the hit tunes of the day for members of the SS and their families…
“...In an especially fitting message of strength and hope, the concert ends with the finale from Jake Heggie’s Farewell, Auschwitz, an MOR commission setting the words of Auschwitz-Birkenau political prisoner Krystyna Zywulska. Her writings were circulated secretly among her fellow Auschwitz prisoners, some becoming anthems of resistance..."
