Music of Remembrance – Past Concerts
[BROADCAST] Music of Remembrance: Gaman
Monday, June 22, 2020 @ 5:00am – 4:59am (PDT)
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: Another Sunrise
Monday, June 15, 2020 @ 5:00am – 4:59am (PDT)
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: The Dybbuk
Monday, June 8, 2020 @ 5:00am – 4:59am (PDT)
Online event
Joel Engel – The Dybbuk Suite
David Beigelman – Dybbuk Dances
David Beigelman – Dybbuk Dances
Free (Free)
[BROADCAST] Music of Remembrance: to open myself, to scream
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 5:00am – 4:59am (PDT)
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 Parting
Monday, May 25, 2020 @ 5:00am – 4:59am (PDT)
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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: For a Look or a Touch
Monday, May 18, 2020 @ 5:00am – 4:59am (PDT)
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 presents 'Veritas'
Monday, May 11, 2020 @ 5:00am – 4:59am (PDT)
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: Camp Songs
Monday, May 4, 2020 @ 5:00am – 4:59am (PDT)
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: VEDEM
Monday, April 27, 2020 @ 5:00am – 4:59am (PDT)
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)
Music of Remembrance: Violins of Hope
Sunday, March 1, 2020 @ 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
Music of Remembrance: Art From Ashes
Monday, January 27, 2020 @ 5:30pm – 7:30pm (PST)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Music of Remembrance joins forces with some of the region’s most talented youth ensembles for this concert commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the liberation of Auschwitz.
Free (Free)
Music of Remembrance Presents 'Passage; Confronting Intolerance'
Sunday, November 3, 2019 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PST)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Passage
Shinji Eshima – Veritas
Paul Schoenfield – Camp Songs
Shinji Eshima – Veritas
Paul Schoenfield – Camp Songs
$55 ($30 under 30, $5 Teentix)
Music of Remembrance: Tom Cipullo's 'The Parting'
Sunday, May 19, 2019 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
A daring opera focusing on an intimate exploration of the life and work of Miklós Radnóti, widely considered one of the most important poetic witnesses to the Holocaust.
$55
Music of Remembrance: 'The City Without Jews' screening w/ new live score
Monday, April 15, 2019 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
The Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA, United States
A special screening of Die Stadt ohne Juden ("The City Without Jews"), a recently-remastered 1924 silent film based on a dystopian novel anticipating the rise of Nazism, with a new score by Guenter Buchwald, performed live.
$10
Music of Remembrance 20th Birthday Celebration Concert
Sunday, November 4, 2018 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PST)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Pavel Haas – String Quartet No. 2, Op. 7 "From the Monkey Mountains" (mvt. 4) (1925)
Lori Laitman – “Memories of Prague” from Vedem (2010)
Paul Schoenfield – “Black Boehm” from Camp Songs (2002)
Viktor Ullmann – Choral arrangements of Yiddish songs (Terezin, 1942)
Joel Engel – The Dybbuk Suite, Op. 35 (1922)
Tom Cipullo – Excerpts from After Life (2015)
Jake Heggie – "Farewell, Auschwitz" from Out of Darkness (2016)
Lori Laitman – “Memories of Prague” from Vedem (2010)
Paul Schoenfield – “Black Boehm” from Camp Songs (2002)
Viktor Ullmann – Choral arrangements of Yiddish songs (Terezin, 1942)
Joel Engel – The Dybbuk Suite, Op. 35 (1922)
Tom Cipullo – Excerpts from After Life (2015)
Jake Heggie – "Farewell, Auschwitz" from Out of Darkness (2016)
$55
Gala evening to celebrate MOR’s 20 years, and help ensure twenty more!
Sunday, May 20, 2018 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Norcliffe Founders' Room at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Mingle with the artists, share a gourmet dinner, and explore exciting silent auction items.
$250+
Music of Remembrance: Gaman – to persevere
Sunday, May 20, 2018 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Christophe Chagnard – Gaman (2018 – world premiere)
Shinji Eshima – August 6th (1995)
Erwin Schulhoff – Five Pieces for String Quartet (1923)
Mieczyslaw Weinberg – Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes (1949)
Songs from Terezin
Shinji Eshima – August 6th (1995)
Erwin Schulhoff – Five Pieces for String Quartet (1923)
Mieczyslaw Weinberg – Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes (1949)
Songs from Terezin
$45 ($30 for under 30)
Art from Ashes: MOR International Holocaust Remembrance Day Concert
Monday, January 29, 2018 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PST)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Featuring chamber music written in Terezín and the Vilna ghetto, and works by composers whose lives were cut short by Nazi persecution.
Free (Free)
Music of Remembrance: Snow Falls
Sunday, November 5, 2017 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
World premieres of works by composers Ryuichi Sakamoto and Keiko Fujiie inspired by Japanese wartime experience, performed alongside Holocaust-inspired chamber music works.
$30-$45
Music of Remembrance: Ceija
Sunday, May 21, 2017 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
The world premiere of a striking multimedia work by rising young composer Mary Kouyoumdjian; works by Osvaldo Golijov paired with new choreography from the innovative Olivier Wevers; and evocative songs by Korngold.
$30-$45