MUSIC
November 9th 2021: Kristallnacht Commemorative Concert
A tribute to the "The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz", this year’s Kristallnacht Commemorative Concert tells the stories of the lives of three women through the evening’s music programme.
Journeying from pre- war Europe through the horrors of the war, recounting the many roles music played in their lives – resistance, survival, resilience, and a means to battle racism, fascism and hatred.
The stories of the life of Alma Rosé, (violinist and conductor) and others will be shared through this unique concert, at which Clare Galambos Winter’s violin will be played.
MC Donald Maurice MNZM, with narration by Inbal Megiddo and Sharn Maree Cassady.
The concert musicians are:
Amalia Hall, Violin,
Martin Riseley, Violin,
Inbal Megiddo, Cello,
Kristallnacht Ensemble
Presented by The Holocaust Centre of New Zealand, in partnership with New Zealand School of Music—Te Kōkī, Victoria University of Wellington.
Supported by The Public Trust Hall and building owners Maurice and Kaye Clark, the Adam Foundation and the Council of Jewish Women.
In commemoration of the night of 9-10 November 1938, when carefully orchestrated anti-Jewish violence was carried out throughout the German Reich. Over the next 48 hours rioters - often neighbours, not strangers – ransacked and damaged more than 7,500 Jewish businesses and burned over 200 synagogues. Police stood by and did nothing to stop the destruction. Firemen were present not to protect the synagogues or Jewish buildings but to ensure that the flames did not spread to adjacent “Aryan” property. Jewish cemeteries were desecrated. The pogrom was given the name Kristallnacht (“Crystal Night,” or “Night of Broken Glass”), referring ironically to the litter of broken glass left in the streets. It marked the beginning of the systematic eradication of a people and it was the prelude to the Holocaust that was to follow.
You are invited to join us for this uniquely informative and moving concert.
9 November at the Public Trust Hall, 6.30pm*
$45 General Admission
$35 Senior Citizen/HCNZ member
$30 Student
*The concert will begin at 7:00 PM, refreshments will be served from 6:30.
Journeying from pre- war Europe through the horrors of the war, recounting the many roles music played in their lives – resistance, survival, resilience, and a means to battle racism, fascism and hatred.
The stories of the life of Alma Rosé, (violinist and conductor) and others will be shared through this unique concert, at which Clare Galambos Winter’s violin will be played.
MC Donald Maurice MNZM, with narration by Inbal Megiddo and Sharn Maree Cassady.
The concert musicians are:
Amalia Hall, Violin,
Martin Riseley, Violin,
Inbal Megiddo, Cello,
Kristallnacht Ensemble
Presented by The Holocaust Centre of New Zealand, in partnership with New Zealand School of Music—Te Kōkī, Victoria University of Wellington.
Supported by The Public Trust Hall and building owners Maurice and Kaye Clark, the Adam Foundation and the Council of Jewish Women.
In commemoration of the night of 9-10 November 1938, when carefully orchestrated anti-Jewish violence was carried out throughout the German Reich. Over the next 48 hours rioters - often neighbours, not strangers – ransacked and damaged more than 7,500 Jewish businesses and burned over 200 synagogues. Police stood by and did nothing to stop the destruction. Firemen were present not to protect the synagogues or Jewish buildings but to ensure that the flames did not spread to adjacent “Aryan” property. Jewish cemeteries were desecrated. The pogrom was given the name Kristallnacht (“Crystal Night,” or “Night of Broken Glass”), referring ironically to the litter of broken glass left in the streets. It marked the beginning of the systematic eradication of a people and it was the prelude to the Holocaust that was to follow.
You are invited to join us for this uniquely informative and moving concert.
9 November at the Public Trust Hall, 6.30pm*
$45 General Admission
$35 Senior Citizen/HCNZ member
$30 Student
*The concert will begin at 7:00 PM, refreshments will be served from 6:30.
November 10th 2019
Kristallnacht Commemorative Concert - A concert of unity
Further details in our Archive
Kristallnacht Commemorative Concert - A concert of unity
Further details in our Archive
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
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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