Art From Ashes
Jan 27, 2025 - 5:30 pm
ART FROM ASHES
This year, MOR’s annual free-to-the community ART FROM ASHES concert marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. We bring generations together in remembrance, joined by the Northwest Boychoir, Seattle Girls Choir, and recent recipients of MOR’s David Tonkonogui Memorial Award for Young Artists alongside MOR’s core instrumental ensemble. The varied program ranges from cabaret songs created by prisoners in the Terezín concentration camp, to selections that were played by a prisoner orchestra in Auschwitz, to a soulful contemporary arrangement for child chorus of a Yiddish lullaby from the Vilna Ghetto.
The program honors the courage and resilience of those who continued to create even in the face of horror, and we help keep their musical voices alive. To close the evening, we continue an MOR tradition with Jake Heggie’s Farewell, Auschwitz and its tribute to the power of resistance and witness.
