Kaddish: A Holocaust Memorial Concert

https://www.mso.com.au/performance/2024-kaddish-a-holocaust-memorial-concert

Featuring

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Northey conductor
Christopher Latham director

Edward Neeman piano
Young Voices of Melbourne
MSO Chorus
Warren Trevelyan-Jones chorus director

Program

Bernstein Symphony No.3 Kaddish
Elena Kats-Chernin The Night of Broken Glass*
Plus works by Schulhoff, Ullmann, Krása, Klein, Haas, Szpilman, Weiner, Bischofswerder, Dreyfus and Korngold

*World premiere

About this performance

This concert is designed to promote healing and deeper understanding of historical trauma resulting from the Holocaust, however please note that the performance does contain graphic images including of deceased persons, and people in distress.

The Australian War Memorial (AWM) and the MSO mark 80 years since the liberation of the first extermination camps in 1944 with a special performance of mourning and remembrance.

The AWM’s first musical Artist in Residence, Christopher Latham OAM, curates a program that includes Leonard Bernstein’s Kaddish Symphony, a new work by Elena Kats-Chernin and William Barton, and works by Jewish composers, musicians and artists.

Image: One Spring by Karl Bodek and Kurt Conrad Löw, courtesy of Yad Vashem

Presented in partnership with the Australian War Memorial.