Music of Remembrance – Upcoming Concerts
Music of Remembrance: Art From Ashes
Monday, January 27, 2031 @ 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: 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