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Concentration camp composers' artistic resistance fuels Music of Remembrance's free concert |
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Music of Remembrance presents Sparks of Glory: Legacy January 19, 2:30 p.m. Seattle Asian Art Museum Seattle's Music of Remembrance (MOR) presents the second program in its Sparks of Glory outreach series, the concert-with-commentary Legacy, at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, January 19, 2008. The free (thanks to sponsorship by Chamber Music America and the National Endowment for the Arts) performance takes place on Capitol Hill at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, which offers free parking for visitors. "The 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, and cultural. It's provocative, nostalgic, angry, grieving, and 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 begins at 2:30 p.m., and includes commentary from Mina Miller, who is also an international speaker on musicians' spiritual resistance during the Holocaust, and performances by some of Seattle's leading chamber musicians. Works by two Czech composers, Hans Krása and Pavel Haas, are highlighted. Miller's commentary will describe how Terezín, the "model" concentration camp where they were inmates, was used in Nazi propaganda efforts to deceive the world about their treatment of Jews - and yet was 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 exhibitions create rich, unexpected associations with MOR's repertoire. Haas' "Four Songs on Chinese Poetry," 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 exhibitions." Israeli composer Betty Olivero's klezmer-like suite of dances from "The Golem," 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. A Music of Remembrance press release |
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