Music of Remembrance – Upcoming Concerts
Music of Remembrance: Violins of Hope
Saturday, March 1, 2031 @ 5:30pm – 7:30pm (PST)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
A special concert performed on Holocaust-era string instruments, featuring chamber music by composers lost to the Holocaust.
$55 / $30 / $5
[BROADCAST] Music of Remembrance: VEDEM
Sunday, April 27, 2031 @ 8:00am – 7:59am (EDT)
Online event
Music of Remembrance presents Vedem, Lori Laitman & David Mason's stirring oratorio based on the lives of teenage boys in the Terezín death camp.
Free (Free)
[BROADCAST] Music of Remembrance: Camp Songs
Sunday, May 4, 2031 @ 8:00am – 7:59am (EDT)
Online event
2019 performance of Paul Schoenfield's Camp Songs, a setting of texts depicting the cruel absurdity of life in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
Free (Free)
[BROADCAST] Music of Remembrance presents 'Veritas'
Sunday, May 11, 2031 @ 8:00am – 7:59am (EDT)
Online event
Shinji Eshima’s soulful musical reflection on the tragic consequences of religious intolerance, in a multimedia work incorporating vivid visual images of sculptor Al Farrow’s works from his Vandalized Doors series.
Free (Free)
[BROADCAST] Music of Remembrance: For a Look or a Touch
Sunday, May 18, 2031 @ 8:00am – 7:59am (EDT)
Online event
Composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer’s pathbreaking musical drama illuminating the Nazi persecution of homosexuals.
Free (Free)
[BROADCAST] Music of Remembrance: The Parting
Sunday, May 25, 2031 @ 8:00am – 7:59am (EDT)
Online event
Music of Remembrance presents Tom Cipullo's new opera, a setting of Hungarian Miklós Radnóti's haunting poems written in the weeks before his execution.
Free (Free)
[BROADCAST] Music of Remembrance: to open myself, to scream
Sunday, June 1, 2031 @ 8:00am – 7:59am (EDT)
Online event
Mary Kouyoumdjian’s multimedia exploration of the fate of Europe’s Roma revealed through the life and art of painter and concentration camp survivor Ceija Stojka.
Free (Free)
[BROADCAST] Music of Remembrance: The Dybbuk
Sunday, June 8, 2031 @ 8:00am – 7:59am (EDT)
Online event
Joel Engel – The Dybbuk Suite
David Beigelman – Dybbuk Dances
David Beigelman – Dybbuk Dances
Free (Free)
[BROADCAST] Music of Remembrance: Another Sunrise
Sunday, June 15, 2031 @ 8:00am – 7:59am (EDT)
Online event
MOR presents Jake Heggie & Gene Scheer’s Another Sunrise, an intense musical and dramatic portrait of Krystyna Zywulska and her defiant poems and songs.
Free (Free)
[BROADCAST] Music of Remembrance: Gaman
Sunday, June 22, 2031 @ 8:00am – 7:59am (EDT)
Online event
MOR presents Christophe Chagnard’s exploration of the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans, revealed through the words & art of those who were there.
Free (Free)
[BROADCAST] Music of Remembrance: The Golem
Sunday, July 13, 2031 @ 8:00am – 7:59am (EDT)
Online event
6 pieces from Israeli composer Betty Olivero’s atmospheric, klezmer-infused score for the classic 1920 silent film The Golem: How He Came into the World.
Free (Free)
[BROADCAST] Music of Remembrance: After Life
Sunday, July 20, 2031 @ 8:00am – 7:59am (EDT)
Online event
Pathbreaking one-act opera imagining a confrontation between the ghosts of Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein over the role of art in a troubled world.
Free (Free)
[BROADCAST] Music of Remembrance: Sparks of Glory
Sunday, July 27, 2031 @ 8:00am – 7:59am (EDT)
Online event
Composer Paul Schoenfield’s tribute to courageous Holocaust defiance, narrated by the late baritone/actor Robert Orth.
Free
[BROADCAST] Music of Remembrance: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Sunday, August 3, 2031 @ 8:00am – 7:59am (EDT)
Online event
Shinji Eshima – August 6th
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Snow Falls
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Passage
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Snow Falls
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Passage
Free (Free)
Music of Remembrance: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki Webinar
Wednesday, August 6, 2031 @ 6:00pm – 7:00pm (EDT)
Online event
MOR marks the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Japan with reflections from MOR artists, the Consul General of Japan, & composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Free (Free (registration required))
Music of Remembrance: To Life! (on-demand until 11/8/2020)
Saturday, November 1, 2031 @ 9:00pm – 11:00pm (EDT)
Online event
Polina Nazaykinskaya – Haim
Hans Gál – Piano Trio in G major, Op. 49b
Bohuslav Martinů – Duo for Violin and Cello, H. 371
Mieczysław Weinberg – Clarinet Sonata, Op. 28
Hans Gál – Piano Trio in G major, Op. 49b
Bohuslav Martinů – Duo for Violin and Cello, H. 371
Mieczysław Weinberg – Clarinet Sonata, Op. 28
$30 ($100 4-program pass)
Music of Remembrance: Stormy Seas (on-demand until 12/20/2020)
Saturday, December 13, 2031 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (EST)
Online event
Max Vredenburg – Lamento
Dick Kattenburg – Trio à cordes
Traditional, arr. Sid Robinovitch – Adio Kerida (world premiere of arrangement)
Traditional, arr. Sid Robinovitch – Alvores lloran por luvias (world premiere of arrangement)
Sid Robinovitch – Rodas Recordada
Géza Frid – String Trio, Op. 1
Sahba Aminikia – Stormy Seas (world premiere)
Dick Kattenburg – Trio à cordes
Traditional, arr. Sid Robinovitch – Adio Kerida (world premiere of arrangement)
Traditional, arr. Sid Robinovitch – Alvores lloran por luvias (world premiere of arrangement)
Sid Robinovitch – Rodas Recordada
Géza Frid – String Trio, Op. 1
Sahba Aminikia – Stormy Seas (world premiere)
Free ($30 ($100 4-program pass))
Music of Remembrance: Insights – Stormy Seas Webinar (on-demand)
Thursday, December 18, 2031 @ 3:00pm – 4:00pm (EST)
Online event
Special program about MoR's commission Stormy Seas. Composer Sahba Aminikia, author Mary Beth Leatherdale, & other artists involved in this production discuss the stories & challenges behind this work.
Free (Free)
Music of Remembrance: Art From Ashes (on-demand until 1/31/2021)
Saturday, January 24, 2032 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (EST)
Online event
MoR honors International Holocaust Remembrance Day & the liberation of Auschwitz with this program of works by murdered composers from across Nazi-controlled Europe.
$30
Music of Remembrance: Return to Amasia (on-demand until 3/7/2021)
Sunday, February 29, 2032 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (EST)
Online event
Michel Michelet – Elegie
Géza Frid – Podium Suite, Op. 3
Paul Ben-Haim – Three Songs Without Words
Eric Hachikian – Return to Amasia (world premiere)
Géza Frid – Podium Suite, Op. 3
Paul Ben-Haim – Three Songs Without Words
Eric Hachikian – Return to Amasia (world premiere)
$30