Art From Ashes

Art From Ashes

Jan 27, 2025 - 5:30 pm

ART FROM ASHES

Every January, Music of Remembrance offers a free Art From Ashes concert at Seattle’s Benaroya Hall to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In 2025, this commemoration coincided exactly with the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The concert, MOR’s gift to the community, emphasized the vital musical contributions made within the walls of Nazi concentration camps, demonstrating the expansive capacity of artists to create, even in the face of insurmountable injustice. The program, emblematic of MOR’s mission to ensure that the music and the lessons of the Holocaust are not lost, ranged from cabaret songs created by prisoners in the Terezín concentration camp, to selections that were played by a prisoner orchestra in Auschwitz, to music from the Vilna and Lodz ghettos. The music brings a message of hope and perseverance, while at the same time reminding us of the urgency of standing up to oppression when we see it in our own world.

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Free. Reserved seating, with advance tickets required.

 Full Concert Program

Makh Tsu Di Eygelekh
David Beigelman

Dybbuk Dances
David Beigelman 

Duo for Violin and Cello, Movement Two, "Zingaresca"
Erwin Schulhoff

Music from Terezin
Under the Umbrella
Hola Ho!
Café in Terezin/Down in Prater 
And the Music Plays Along

Music from Auschwitz
Instrumental arrangements of music performed by the Men's Orchestra in Auschwitz

Music from the Vilna Ghetto
Shtiler, Shtiler
S'dremlyn feygl
Friling

Farewell, Auschwitz      Jake Heggie
Finale from the song cycle Farewell, Auschwitz  (2013)
Arrangement for Child Voices (2020)
Poetry written in Auschwitz by Krystyna Zywulska

Featuring the Northwest Boychoir and Seattle Girls Choir
Jacob Winkler and Sarra Sharif Doyle, artistic directors

Music of Remembrance Ensemble:

Laura DeLuca, clarinet; Mikhail Shmidt, violin;  Natasha Bazhanov, violin;  
Susan Gulkis Assadi, viola; Walter Gray, cello; 
Jonathan Green, double bass; Mina Miller, piano

Soloists: Megan Parker, soprano; Karen Early Evans, soprano;
Brendan Tuohy, tenor

David Tonkonogui Memorial Award Recipient for Young Artists
Khaos Kook, violin

This free concert is made possible by the generous sponsorship of Judy and Krijn de Jonge, bringing the entire Seattle community together in honor of this important milestone. Judy and Krijn are owners of Queen Anne Book Company, a local bookstore that is offering a safe place to visit in the Queen Anne neighborhood.

Special thanks to the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany San Francisco for supporting a video recording of this concert.