The Friday Morning Music Club Presents: Remembering Kristallnacht
Sunday, November 10 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Join us for an afternoon of classical music by the wonderful musicians of the Friday Morning Music Club (FMMC). FMMC has been performing in the DMV for more than 30 years, bringing free classical music to diverse audiences. They will give a very special concert to remember the Night of Broken Glass – Kristallnacht – which took place in Germany in November 1938 and was a defining event of the Holocaust.
The program will include:
- a sonata for cello and piano by composer James Simon, who died at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. Simon was a prolific composer but much of his music was lost.
- selected works for solo piano by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, a Jewish composer who immigrated to America to escape the Nazis.
- additional works for cello and piano (by a different cellist), played on a cello that was “rescued” from the Holocaust. These will include Jewish-themed pieces by Ernest Bloch (Pieces from Jewish Life: Prayer, Supplication; Jewish Song) and Maurice Ravel (Deux Melodies Hebraique: Kaddish and L’Enigma Eternal).
Please join us for a moving concert of Jewish music in reminiscence of this fateful event.
Fee: Complimentary. Registration required.
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