Sunday January 30, 2011
2:30PM - - -
Musica Camerata Montreal presents CZECH MATES
Category :: Concert
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Krommer, Dvorak, Joseph Suk • Franz Krommer (1759-1831): Quartet no 1 in C major for oboe and strings • Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) : Bagatelles op. 47 for accordion, 2 violins et cello (1878) • Josef Suk (1874-1935): Quintet in G minor for piano and strings op. 8 (1893).
Ticket prices: $20-30
A husband asks his wife to be happy, a mother throws a message of hope to her children from a deportation train, a father leaves his daughter in his brother's care, a Jewish soldier discovers the fate of his people in concentration camps.
Some 18 letters, written between 1941 and 1944, were selected from the Center's collection. They are written by people caught in the storm of Nazism and the genocide of European Jews during the Second World War.
Letters that call for help, letters of farewell or hope, and these words are often the last traces of life that relatives of Holocaust victims have received.
These letters reflect the living conditions, hunger, poverty and especially concern even resignation in the face of tragedy. They also illustrate the complex history of the Holocaust and the diversity of fates shattered by a relentless policy of mass murder. Death is inevitable, we know, but these last few words are also a breath of humanity, a wind of hope that command those who are still able to continue living.
More than 60 years after the liberation of Auschwitz and over 6 million lives later, we are receiving these messages. Pay tribute to Holocaust victims and honor their memory because the commemoration is also a form of commitment to human rights.
This event is organized in partnership with the National Theatre School of Canada.
Free entrance.
Ticket prices: $20-30
A husband asks his wife to be happy, a mother throws a message of hope to her children from a deportation train, a father leaves his daughter in his brother's care, a Jewish soldier discovers the fate of his people in concentration camps.
Some 18 letters, written between 1941 and 1944, were selected from the Center's collection. They are written by people caught in the storm of Nazism and the genocide of European Jews during the Second World War.
Letters that call for help, letters of farewell or hope, and these words are often the last traces of life that relatives of Holocaust victims have received.
These letters reflect the living conditions, hunger, poverty and especially concern even resignation in the face of tragedy. They also illustrate the complex history of the Holocaust and the diversity of fates shattered by a relentless policy of mass murder. Death is inevitable, we know, but these last few words are also a breath of humanity, a wind of hope that command those who are still able to continue living.
More than 60 years after the liberation of Auschwitz and over 6 million lives later, we are receiving these messages. Pay tribute to Holocaust victims and honor their memory because the commemoration is also a form of commitment to human rights.
This event is organized in partnership with the National Theatre School of Canada.
Free entrance.
For More Information:
Address:
5170 Cote St. Catherine Rd
City:
Montreal
Zip/Postal:
H3W 1M7
Contact Name:
Segal Centre for the Performing Arts
Phone:
514.739.2301, ext. 8363
Email:
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