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Post by chiver78 on Apr 13, 2018 15:07:48 GMT -5
...at concert to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel. it also happens to fall on the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. I had the chills reading this. wow.  link |
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Post by dezii on Apr 13, 2018 15:37:04 GMT -5
...at concert to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel. it also happens to fall on the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. I had the chills reading this. wow. linkWould love them to record the concert , offer for sale......any proceeds to go to survivors of the Holocaust ....definitely a sale here.. Just a aside...the picture of the little boy and others with their arms up raised...picture is of civiliens captured alive in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising...he survived the camps...He is wearing a coat similar to one just like one my grandfather made for me..he was a tailor, New Haven, Ct....he was about seven or so...always reminded me of me when I saw it..looks just like one of me same age a picture..arms down of course...and some years ago the information he survived came out and always remained with me... |
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Post by Tennesseer on Apr 13, 2018 16:43:51 GMT -5
While not written by any imprisoned in German concentration camps, this classical music written by Polish composer Henryk Górecki was a surprising popular classical album released in the early 1990s. The name of the symphony is 'Symphony No. 3 [“Symphony of Sorrowful Songs”], Op. 36' . I first heard it in the early 1990s and have listened to it ever since. Górecki said the symphony is about the ties between mother and child. Górecki had been asked in the 1970s to compose a symphony about the Holocaust. Górecki didn't feel he was up to the task. But he later found inspiration to compose a three part symphony in which the first part "describes a mother's mourning for a son lost in war, and probably dates from the Silesian Uprisings of 1919–21." The second is based on "an inscription scrawled on the wall of a cell in a German Gestapo prison in the town of Zakopane, which lies at the foot of the Tatra mountains in southern Poland. The words were those of 18-year-old Helena Wanda Błażusiakówna, a highland woman incarcerated on 25 September 1944. It read O Mamo, nie placz, nie. Niebios Przeczysta Królowo, Ty zawsze wspieraj mnie (Oh Mamma do not cry, no. Immaculate Queen of Heaven, you support me always)." The third part is based on a "mid-15th-century folk song from the southern city of Opole.[11] Its text contains a passage in which the Virgin Mary speaks to her Son dying on the cross: "O my son, beloved and chosen, Share your wounds with your mother ..." (Synku miły i wybrany, rozdziel z matką swoje rany ...)." Symphony No. 3 (Górecki)Give it a listen if you have time. |
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Post by weltschmerz on Apr 13, 2018 16:52:47 GMT -5
I recently saw a documentary on PBS. Excellent. At a music shop in Israel, a violinmaker has been collecting stringed instruments once owned by inmates of Nazi concentration camps. Largely silent for seven decades, they now speak for horrors of the Holocaust as part of a project called "The Violins of Hope." Special correspondent David C. Barnett from WVIZ/PBS ideastream reports from Cleveland on a series of concerts and exhibits they inspired. www.pbs.org/newshour/show/restoring-hope-by-repairing-violins-of-the-holocaust |
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 13, 2018 22:49:57 GMT -5
We have season tickets to the local symphony. One concert each season is entitled Harmony from Discord, which is dedicated to music that came out of the concentration camps.
It isn’t an easy concert, very thought provoking.
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Post by Tennesseer on Apr 24, 2018 23:51:40 GMT -5
...at concert to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel. it also happens to fall on the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. I had the chills reading this. wow. linkChiver and dezii -Chiver's link mentions the Theresienstadt concentration camp. By pure coincidence I came across an article today on Wiki which mentioned the Theresienstadt camp. I looked up the camp on Wiki and scrolled down to the section titled Cultural activities and legacy. Theresienstadt concentration camp: Cultural Activities and LegacyIn the Cultural activities and legacy section, it mentions musical composers and the music composed while they were imprisoned at Theresienstadt and before they were later murdered. Their compositions were made into a two CD set called 'Terezín: The Music 1941–44'. Terezín: The Music 1941–44I checked Youtube and some of the pieces mentioned are on Youtube. Here is one Youtube video added by the Contemporary Jewish Museum called 'Tales from Terezin'. There are other selections as well. |
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Post by Tennesseer on Apr 25, 2018 0:05:16 GMT -5
Two more Youtube video about Terezin:
If you listed to the musical video I posted in reply #2, you will recognize it in parts of the video below:
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