The Story of an Artistic Community That Formed in a Nazi Concentration Camp
A new book published by Steidl tells the story of a group of imprisoned artists and musicians founded in Terezín, a Nazi concentration camp
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A new book published by Steidl tells the story of a group of imprisoned artists and musicians founded in Terezín, a Nazi concentration camp
Carnegie Hall. Photo: StrangeTraveler/Wikimedia Commons. A symphonic poem written by an Auschwitz survivor from Greece, who wrote the orchestral music in honor of those killed during the Holocaust, will make its debut at Carnegie Hall in New York City on Wednesday. Michel Assael wrote the symphonic poem “Auschwitz” in 1947, after being freed from the| USSA News
A full-circle moment is happening at Carnegie Hall this week for a holocaust survivor from Greece.
Robert Nathaniel Dett’s sweeping oratorio had its first broadcast cut short and has barely been heard in the eight decades since. Ahead of its UK premiere, tenor Rodrick Dixon explains its importance, and how the composer’s grandmother played a part
In the Czech ghetto, amid malnutrition, exhaustion and despair, hope flourished in the form of music, created and performed by artists and composers as they awaited their fate