MUSIC

10am NZT, November 10th Online via Zoom. 'Hollywood Composers: Musicians in Exile' with Inbal Megiddo, Cello and Jian Liu, Piano from the New Zealand School of Music.
​This is a concert & talk for Classrooms Without Borders, USA, showcasing the concert music and film scores of the Golden Age of Cinema, composed by leading Jewish European composers who fled the Holocaust and settled in Hollywood. Register to receive the link via email.

• Erich Wolfgang Korngold (Austria, 1897 – 1957) Cello Concerto, Op. 37
• Miklós Rózsa (Hungary, 1907 – 1995) Love Theme from El Cid
• Joseph Achron (Lithuania, 1886-1943) Hebrew Melody 
• Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (Italy, 1895 – 1968) Figaro, from Barber of Seville by Rossini
• George Gershwin (USA, 1898 - 1937) Tribute to Blue Note Records, New York Blue Note Record Label, co-founded by Jewish refugees Alfred Lion & Francis Wolff (1939) Summertime

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November 9th 2020: Kristallnacht Commemorative Concert - Resilience & Reinvention

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Classical and jazz music composed by leading Jewish European composers who fled the Holocaust and reinvented themselves in Hollywood, where they wrote the music for some of the greatest blockbusters, and influenced film music forever.

A multimedia experience, with visual excerpts from  films and a jazz tribute to Blue Note Records, New York - jazz’s iconic label, co-founded by German-Jewish immigrants Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff.

This concert commemorates Kristallnacht and the beginning­ of the destruction of European Jewry and is dedicated to the music of these Hollywood composers including  Weinberg, Korngold, Toch, Rózsa, Waxman and Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

Presented by HCNZ in partnership with Te Kōki-the New Zealand School of Music - Victoria University of Wellington, and supported by the Public Trust Hall and the Adam Foundation. 

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November 10th 2019
Kristallnacht Commemorative Concert - A concert of unity

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Thank you to the following sponsors and suppliers: Adam Foundation,  Wellington Jewish Community Centre,  Wellington City Council,  Grouse Lighting, Peter Frater, GracePR and Hiremaster.
Photos: Holocaust Centre of New Zealand

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Kristallnacht Concert - November 2018

Music, remembrance and hope

With the theme of “music, remembrance and hope”, the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand’s 2018 Kristallnacht concert met all three qualities to the highest degree.
 
For this 80th anniversary of the horrifying events of 9-10 November 1938, the programme’s eight items covered a range of music by Jewish composers – two of whom perished in the Shoah (Holocaust) – and ranged from Gustav Mahler’s teenage piano quartet to the final piece, “Violins of hope,” by Israeli Ohad Ben-Ari which was first performed in Berlin on International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2015.
 

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