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Concentration camp composers' artistic resistance fuels Music of Remembrance's free concert on January 19 |
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| Concentration camp composers' artistic resistance fuels Music of Remembrance's free concert on January 19 | ||
Israeli Composer Betty Olivero's Dance Suite Recalls Tales of Prague Golem On Saturday, January 19, at 2:30 p.m., Seattle's Music of Remembrance (MOR) presents "Legacy" - the second program in their concert-with-commentary "Sparks of Glory Musical Witness" outreach series. The concert will be held at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, Stimson Auditorium, in Volunteer Park, 1400 E. Prospect St. and is free thanks to sponsorship by Chamber Music America and the National Endowment for the Arts. "The program title, Legacy," MOR's artistic director, Mina Miller, explained, "is tied to our mission to ensure these powerful voices are heard. This legacy is historical, political, cultural. It's provocative, nostalgic, angry, grieving, life-loving. This music is for everybody - not just those who love chamber music concerts, but anyone who has ever felt music speak to them." The Saturday afternoon concert includes performances by some of Seattle's leading chamber musicians and commentary from Mina Miller, who is also an international speaker on musicians' spiritual resistance during the Holocaust. Works by two Czech composers, Hans Krása and Pavel Haas will be highlighted. Miller's commentary will describe how Terezín, the "model" concentration camp where the composers were inmates, was used in Nazi propaganda efforts to deceive the world about their treatment of Jews. While nearly all of Terezín's prisoners were eventually transported to death camps, Terezín was yet a remarkable center of spiritual resistance through artistic creation. MOR's focus is on the cultural legacy created by musicians during the Holocaust, and SAAM's exhibits create rich, unexpected associations with MOR's repertoire. Haas' Four Songs on Chinese Poetry (Terezin, 1944), sung by popular Seattle baritone Erich Parce, opens up a conversation with SAAM's extensive Chinese art collection. An audience member at MOR's September 29 concert wrote to applaud the "excellent coordination concept with SAAM and MOR. I look forward to future MOR programs and am now more interested in SAAM exhibits." Israeli composer Betty Olivero's klezmer-like suite of dances, Zeks Yiddishe Lider un Tantz from The Golem (1997), her musical score written to accompany the classic 1920 silent film by Paul Wegener, evokes another, earlier legacy. The series of Ashkenazic and Sephardic folk melodies musically suggest the tales of Prague's 16th-century Rabbi Löw, who created a golem (a supernaturally strong clay giant) to protect a Prague ghetto from anti-Semitic attacks. In addition, Hans Krasa's Three Songs will be performed. Performers for this concert are: Erich Parce, baritone; Mina Miller, piano; Laura DeLuca, clarinet; Mikhail Shmidt, violin; Leonid Keylin, violin; Susan Gulkis Assadi, viola; Mara Finkelstein, cello Additional free concerts in this series will be held on March 15 and April 12. ABOUT MUSIC OF REMEMBRANCE Music of Remembrance (MOR) fills a unique spiritual and cultural role in Seattle and throughout the United States by remembering Holocaust musicians and their art through musical performances, educational activities, musical recordings and commissions of new works. Since its 1998-99 inaugural year, MOR has presented two major concerts annually at Seattle's Benaroya Hall, marking the anniversary of Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass) each fall and Holocaust Remembrance Day each spring. More information is available at www.musicofremembrance.org. A Music of Rembrance press release |
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