10/9/23 @ 11:00, 0 Crematorium at the Jewish Cemetery
A memorial event to commemorate the Jewish victims of Nazi genocide in the Czech lands and following In memoriam Terezin-Auschwitz concert
- Tryzna Kever Avot takes place at the crematorium building in the Jewish Cemetery and at the place of worship by the river Ohře
- beginning at 11 a.m. at the crematorium at the Jewish Cemetery
- organizer: Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic and Jewish Community in Prague
From 2 p.m., the In Memoriam Terezín-Auschwitz concert will be held in the Terezín riding hall (Palackého 260, Terezín) under the auspices of the Terezín Memorial, the Czech Auschwitz Committee and the Terezín Initiative on the 80th anniversary of the deportation of the September transport to the so-called Terezín family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The main point of the program will be Symphony No. 3 "Sorrowful Songs" by the Polish composer H. M. Górecký, which appears very rarely on Czech stages. The first and third sentences express the feelings of a mother who has lost a child. The second sentence, on the other hand, describes a child imprisoned by the Gestapo who was separated from his mother. The symphony is built on so-called neomodalities, or a return to modalities that were common especially in medieval and Renaissance music.
The concert will also commemorate the 90th anniversary of the birth of H. M. Górecký.
The world premiere will also feature the composition Lullaby for Terezín by the Cypriot-born composer Marios Christou, who is an expert on Górecký's 3rd symphony, from which he drew inspiration.
Program:
Marios Christou: Lullaby for Terezín - WORLD PREMIERE
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki: Symphony No. 3 "Sorrowful Songs"
Performers:
Tamara Morozová /soprano/
Justyna Khil /soprano/
Karel Dohnal /clarinet/
Václav Dlask /conductor/
Alexander Ebert /conductor/
NeoKlasik Orchestra in cooperation with Neues musikalisches Forum Dresden
ADMISSION VOLUNTARY
Concert partners:
H&P Law Law Firm, State Culture Fund of the Czech Republic, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Czech-German Future Fund, Ústí Region, Terezín City, OSA, Czech Music Fund Foundation, Holocaust Victims Foundation Fund, Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic, Czech Auschwitz Committee, Polish Institute in Prague, Terezín Memorial, Terezín Initiative Institute