Brundibár Arts Festival – Concert: Musique d’un Autre Monde – HMD 2024

Activity information

Activity type: Public activity

Organisation name: Brundibár Arts Festival

Website: https://www.brundibarartsfestival.com/

Address:
Newcastle University Kings Hall
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE1 7RU
United Kingdom

Musique d’un Autre Monde - Opening Concert
Saturday 20th January, 7.30pm, Newcastle University Kings Hall

This year’s Opening Concert is dedicated to Polish composers who suffered in the Holocaust. Behind each piece of music is a life and a story. The programme will include pieces by:

● Władysław Szpilman, a Polish pianist and classical composer of Jewish descent who is widely known as the central figure in the 2002 film, The Pianist.
● Alexandre Tansman, who fled the Nazis for America in the late 1930s.
● Simon (Szymon) Laks, who was incarcerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau and became head of the men’s orchestra in the camp.
● Tadeusz Kassern, who survived the war in Lviv, Cracow and Warsaw, using false papers to hide from the Gestapo.
● Karol Rathaus, who fled Berlin in 1932 on the eve of the Nazis taking power.

Artists performing will include:
Violin - Bartosz Woroch, Alexandra Raikhlina
Viola - Nathan Braude
Cello - Bartholomew LaFollette
Piano - Aleksandra Hałat, Katya Apekisheva
Flute - Ania Karpowicz
Harp - Richard Allen

PROGRAMME:

Szpilman: Suite for piano
Laks: Quartet no.3
Tansman: Sonatina da Camera

(Interval)

Kassern: Flute Sonatina
Tansman: Pour les Enfants
Rathaus: Piano Trio

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Other organisation(s) involved

Newcastle University (venue)