Gedenkkonzert: Lebensmelodien

In the organizer's words:

Villa Seligmann has been commemorating the victims of the Holocaust with concerts for years. Together with the Evangelical-Lutheran City Church Association and the Lower Saxony State Parliament, Villa Seligmann is once again inviting people to the Marktkirche before Remembrance Day in 2025. This year's special occasion is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The program includes the concert "Lebensmelodien".

"Melodies of Life" - Many melodies were composed in the inhumane situations of persecution and murder in the years 1933 - 1945. Many of them survived these times, although the National Socialists did everything in their power to wipe out the Jewish part of German culture. The educational project "Melodies of Life" brings the compositions back into German history together with the respective life stories and backgrounds and passes them on to the next generation.

At the heart of the "Melodic Memories" program is the figure of the German-Jewish composer Peter Ury, who was able to flee Ulm as a young man in 1939 and had to leave his seriously ill parents behind. The research into the person and composer Peter Ury, which is incorporated into the concert program, was largely carried out by pupils from the city of Ulm. His music archive is held by the European Center for Jewish Music (EZJM) in Hanover and has already been presented at the Villa Seligmann. Peter Ury's son from London is expected to perform at the memorial concert on January 23, 2025.

The program also includes "Melodies of Life" by eleven-year-old pianist Josima Feldschuh from the Warsaw ghetto. Despite the desperate situation in the ghetto, these melodies are imbued with a romantic spirit and a special lightness. Josima did not survive the Shoah, but her melodies live on.

Instrumentation

Violin: Christophe Horak, Oscar Bohórquez
Viola: Francesca Zappa
Cello: Claudio Bohórquez
Double bass: Peter Riegelbauer
Clarinet: Nur Ben Shalom
Vocals: Rinnat Moriah
Piano: Michael Cohen Weissert
Actress: Martina Gedeck
Director: Michael Raddatz

Free admission. Registration is not required.