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2019-2020 Annual Report Mina Miller, President & Artistic Director Mission 2019-20 Board of Directors usic of Remembrance fills a unique role throughout the world by remembering the Holocaust through music. With concert performances, David Epstein, Chair M Thea Fefer, Vice Chair educational programs, recordings, and commissions of new works by some of Pamela Center, Secretary today’s leading composers, MOR honors those of all backgrounds who found the Russell Lebert, Treasurer strength to create even in the face of suffering, and those who had the courage to Henry Butler speak out against cruelty. We tell stories that communicate urgent lessons for today, Ulrich Fischer and we look beyond the Holocaust itself to the experience of others who have been Toni Freeman excluded or persecuted for their faith, ethnicity, gender or sexuality. Alice Greenwood Barbara Johns Gale Kessler Eugene May The Sostenuto Society Nickolas Newcombe Preserve a precious cultural legacy • Create new music through commissions Harvey Sadis Educate our children and grandchildren Cynthia Shumate Sandra Spear Since its inception in 2002, the Sostenuto* Society has formed the core of MOR’s Kyoko Taguchi fiscal stability. The Sostenuto Society welcomes as members those farsighted Gregory Wallace and generous donors who make a three-year gift commitment to Music of Frederick Yudin Remembrance. Through their dedication to MOR’s mission, Sostenuto Society Stanley Zeitz members provide sustained support for MOR programming. This enables us to Gerard Zytnicki plan and undertake long-range projects such as the commission of new works David Sabritt, Executive Advisor by some of today’s most important composers, our educational programs, and Stephen Griggs special initiatives like our documentary filmThe Boys of Terezín. Administrator Crescendo Sostenuto Platinum Sostenuto Silver ($1,200 to $2,499 ) Advisory Board ($7,500 and above) ($5,000 to $7,499) Jan & Kenneth Block H. David Kaplan Leon Botstein Susan Shanbrom Krabbe Rickie Crown Olga & Henry Butler Gale Kessler Samuel Brylawski & Morris Krabbe Lin & Dr. Murray Pamela & Robert Center Drs. Patricia Shuster & John Corigliano Powell Family Foundation – Robinovitch Judy & Krijn DeJonge Eugene May Bob Goldfarb Nancy E. Powell Division Frederick Yudin David Epstein Nickolas Newcombe Richard Goode Sherry and James Raisbeck Judith Feigin Lucy & Herb Pruzan Speight Jenkins Sostenuto Gold & Colin Faulkner Cynthia Shumate Gary Karr Lori Laitman & Bruce ($2,500 to $4,999) Rosenblum Thea Fefer Helen & Dr. Thomas Spiro Thomas Pasatieri The Purple Lady / Ulrich Fischer Kyoko & Michio Taguchi Mina Miller & David Sabritt Murray Perahia Barbara J. Meislin Fund Toni Freeman Moya Vazquez Steve Reich Beth Ann Segal Ursula Rychter Alice & Howard Craig Sheppard & Paul Schoenfield Greenwood Gregory Wallace Gerard Schwarz Barbara Johns & Nancy & Dr. Stanley Zeitz David Shifrin Richard Hesik Bret Werb Pinchas Zukerman
MOR’s mission to remember the Holocaust through music is by no means limited to a focus on the past. MOR has actually proved to be ahead of its time in grappling with issues of social justice and persecution. – Thomas May, Memeteria
2 MOR 2019-20 Season Annual Report e’re on a journey that none of us expected. Before the pandemic brought the world to a Wstop, MOR had already performed three impactful mainstage concerts in its 2019-2020 season. The November 2019 program unveiled two pathbreaking world premieres that confront intolerance in our own time. On January 27, 2020, we joined the world in marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. And in March we presented a special concert performed on instruments from the Violins of Hope collection. Only days later, the pandemic shuttered stages everywhere for the rest of the year and beyond. Nothing can compare to the experience of sharing live performances together, and we’re eagerly Mina Miller waiting for the day when we can do that in a way that’s safe for our audience members, performers Founder and Artistic and staff. But in the meantime, we’ve not wavered in our mission of making a difference through Director music — a mission that resonates with particular meaning now in our troubled time. Almost immediately after the pandemic’s onset, we began adapting how we deliver our mission and our work to the world. We set for ourselves two big goals — to continue performing for the sake of our audience and artists, and to ensure that our works and performances will last long after the lockdowns end. Through the spring and summer, we curated and streamed a series of 16 weekly free programs that included musical selections, documentary films, webinars, and meet- the-artist conversations with performers and composers. Drawing on expert professional guidance, we also used this time to develop and begin producing a full 2020-2021 season of five all-new online concerts. They feature the world premieres of new commissions like Sahba Aminikia’s Stormy Seas, about the true stories of child boat refugees, and Eric Hachikian’s Return to Amasia, reflecting on the Armenian genocide. We’ll also produce a compelling online production of the double bill of Holocaust-inspired works by Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer — Intonations and For a Look or a Touch — that the pandemic forced us to cancel in May 2020. Eager as we are to return to the live stage, the mastery of this new digital world gives us an opportunity to reach new audiences, and to create a permanent legacy of digital content that remains available to people everywhere. We have established an Online Performances Fund to help us build on this impressive beginning. It joins our newly-established Artists Fund and New Commissions Fund to round out these efforts. This has been a truly difficult time for everyone, and especially for our performers whose careers and livelihoods have been thrown into turmoil. MOR is what it is because of our amazing artists, and we take pride in making it a priority to provide them with every opportunity we can. So yes, we’re on a journey, and traveling it together with you means so much. All of us miss the intimacy and emotional connection of experiencing live music together. But sharing music, however we can, matters even more now as we struggle to help one another through these uncertain times. We hope that you’ll find special meaning in our programs this season with their messages of strength and perseverance for our troubled moment.
Holocaust-era composers performed in our 2019-2020 season
David Beigelman was born to a musical family in Lodz, Poland, and was imprisoned in Terezín for 26 months before being sent to his death in became an accomplished violinist, conductor and composer. Active in Auschwitz. Yiddish theater from an early age, he became director of the Lodz Yiddish Erwin Schulhoff was an audaciously original voice whose career Theater in 1912 at the age of 25. Beigelman was forced into the Lodz was brought to an abrupt end in a Nazi labor camp. An avant-garde ghetto in 1940, and deported to Auschwitz in 1944, where he perished the composer, he saw the performance of his music banned as “degenerate” following year. during the early days of the Reich; as a Jew and a socialist, he was Robert Dauber experienced the war years as a prisoner in Terezín before marked for personal destruction. He died of tuberculosis in the Wülzburg deportation to Dachau, where he succumbed to typhus. A talented concentration camp in Bavaria. pianist and cellist, he played the cello in the Terezín orchestra, including Sándor Vándor is often remembered for the illustrious Budapest choir performances of Brundibár. The Serenata for violin is his only surviving that he led for eight years and now bears his name, but he also had a composition. broader influence in Hungary’s musical life between the world wars as Dick Kattenburg barely had a chance to experience life as an adult a conductor and composer. Vándor was sent by Hungarian Nazis to his before the German occupation of Amsterdam shattered the world he death in a forced labor camp. At the time he was working on his second knew. Kattenburg spent the war years in hiding until his betrayal and opera, which was never finished. arrest. He was deported to the Westerbork transit camp and then Mieczyslaw Weinberg bears the unfortunate distinction of persecution Auschwitz, where he likely was murdered on a death march. at both Nazi and Soviet hands. He fled eastward from Warsaw after the Gideon Klein, a young composer and pianist at the threshold of a German invasion of Poland to the Soviet Union. His parents and sister promising career, was deported to Terezín in late 1941. Besides continuing stayed behind and were imprisoned in the Lodz ghetto before perishing to perform and compose, he became an avid educator and devoted in the Trawniki concentration camp. Dmitri Shostakovich arranged an himself to the teaching of Terezín’s orphans. Klein was deported to invitation in 1943 for Weinberg to move to Moscow, where he remained Auschwitz and then the Fürstengrube camp, where he perished. for the rest of his life. After the war, Weinberg fell prey to Stalin’s renewed Hans Krása is probably best known as the composer of Brundibár, the wave of anti-Semitic purges, but he still maintained a remarkable career inspiring children’s opera performed 55 times by children in Terezín. He for five decades.
MOR 2019-20 Season Annual Report 3 Confronting Intolerance with Music that Matters In two timely world premieres, MOR confronts the threats today of religious hatred and fear of the stranger.
t’s not enough to tell Holocaust stories if we they believe. And, most of all, we honor those lessons Isee them only as reminders of a tragic past. We by recognizing their urgency in our own world. On honor the Holocaust’s lessons by also looking at the November 3, 2019 MOR opened its 22nd concert experience of other people whose fundamental rights season with two pathbreaking world premieres have been threatened because of who they are or what confronting intolerance in our own time.
“When we think about human history, we see countless tragedy. But as long as we live, we can’t forget each of these tragedies. It is very important to pass on this lesson to the next generation.” – Ryuichi Sakamoto
Passage Struggle: a refugee flees violence in his own land Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto’s new work, simply titled Passage, focuses on the plight of a refugee seeking to escape violence in his home country in the Middle East. This somber piece for string quartet and spoken voice is based on the experience of the composer’s young Egyptian friend — whom he met on Facebook. Kareem Lotfy was forced to flee after enduring unimaginable cruelty and seeing his friends killed in front of his own eyes. The work reminds us, once again, of how people’s worlds are shattered by war. The commission of Passage was made possible through the generous support of Yoshiaki and Naomi Minegishi, and James and Sherry Raisbeck.
Special Thanks To Our 22nd Season Concert Sponsor The Powell Family Foundation – Nancy E. Powell Division
4 MOR 2019-20 Season Annual Report Confronting Intolerance with Music that Matters In two timely world premieres, MOR confronts the threats today of religious hatred and fear of the stranger.
Veritas Soulful: a statement against religious intolerance Shinji Eshima’s Veritas is a profound meditation on the terrible consequences of religious intolerance in all its forms. It fuses the composer’s soulful music with riveting visual imagery of works from sculptor Al Farrow’s “Vandalized Doors” series. In the sculptures, Farrow crafted large doors from actual munitions – like bullets, shell casings and weapons – to resemble the damaged entrances of a mosque, church and synagogue. Veritas calls on us to reflect on what we can do to change our world. “Charles Baudelaire once said ‘the idea of human progress is totally absurd.’ This is still true as we as a species remain continuously and non-sensibly violent. My music attempts to connect these expressions together through and across time. As Music of Remembrance constantly reminds us, isn’t it time to change?” “While working on the architectural sculptures – Shinji Eshima of religious temples, I became aware of the importance of doors as portals.” – Al Farrow
Camp Songs Sardonic: a Sachsenhausen prisoner speaks Almost 20 years ago, MOR commissioned and premiered American composer Paul Schoenfield’s Camp Songs, a setting of five texts that dissident Polish journalist Aleksander Kulisiewicz wrote as a non-Jewish political prisoner in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. At our November 2019 concert, we brought the work back in a brilliant new dramatic production humor even more powerful, depicting the cruel conceived and directed by Erich Parce. The absurdity of what passed for life there and laying bare production’s vivid stagecraft makes the songs’ bitter the fury seething beneath the terrors.
“The poems that I am setting are caricatures which (in Joseph Conrad’s words) ‘put the face of a joke upon the body of truth.’ They are an affirmation of dignity; a declaration of man’s superiority to all that befalls him.” – Paul Schoenfield
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11 Art From Ashes Return to Amasia Commemorating International Available for streaming Holocaust Remembrance Day starting Sunday, February 28, 2021 and the 76th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz
Available for streaming starting Sunday, January 24, 2021
Featuring the world premiere of Return to Amasia recalling the Armenian genocide. American composer Eric Hachikian is the grandson of survivors from that genocide. His work is an intimate musical and visual account of his own journey in search of his roots.
We dedicate our production of For a Look or a Touch to For a Look or a Touch the memory of Robert Orth (1947-2019), whose artistry, Music by Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer wisdom and humanity a rare double bill remain inspirations to us all. Available for streaming in June 2021 MOR guest artists Commissioned by Music of Remembrance Laura Krumm mezzo soprano AND A new production of this intense musical drama of two idealistic young gay men whose lives and love were torn apart by Nazi persecution. JarrettIntonations: Ott Jarrett Ott, baritone baritone Curt Branom, actor Songs from the Violins of Hope
Curt Branom Inspiredactor by the same Holocaust instruments MOR brought to Seattle in March 2020
Laura Krumm, mezzo soprano Mikhail Shmidt, violin
Many thanks to our production sponsor Stephen and Diane Heiman Tickets:www.musicofremembrance.org