FULL ART FROM ASHES Seattle WA 2025 Karen Early Evans, Megan Parker, Brendan Tuohy
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Art From Ashes
- Composer: various
- Libretto: various
- Venue & Opera Company: Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, Washington
- Recorded: January 27, 2025
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Karen Early Evans, Megan Parker, Brendan Tuohy
- Conductor:
- Orchestra: MOR Ensemble
- Chorus: Northwest Boychoir, Seattle Girls Choir's Prime Voci
- Chorus Master: Jacob Winkler, Sarra Sharif Doyle
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Music of Remembrance (MOR)
- Date Published: 2025
- Format: DVD
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, gensubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
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.
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