Based in Seattle, Music of Remembrance is a chamber music organization with a unique mission: to preserve the musical legacy of Holocaust musicians.

Even today, not many people know about the music created by artists imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps. In helping their music receive the hearing its creators must have dreamed of, we also demonstrate the power of the human spirit to resist oppression--in even the most dire circumstances.

By commissioning new works by living composers (Heggie, Laitman, Olivero, Pasatieri, Schoenfield, Schwarz, Stock), MOR remembers anew the world's loss in the Holocaust, and the voices of those the Nazis strove to silence forever. More about Music of Remembrance ...

 
Left to right: Leonid Keylin, Mina Miller and Mara Finkelstein

Coming Soon: A Twelfth Season of MOR
Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall

Monday, November 9, 2009
Gala Opening Concert

Monday, May 10, 2010
World Premiere of MOR Commission by Lori Laitman
A Holocaust Oratorio Featuring The Northwest Boychoir

MOR Documentary UNSILENCED Comes to TV

Hundreds joined MOR for the world premiere screening of the documentary UNSILENCED on June 14. The film's cable TV premiere is Monday, June 15, at 9 p.m. on Channel 28 Comcast/Channel 19 Millennium, with repeat showings this weekend: Friday at 11 p.m., Saturday at 7 p.m., and Sunday at 8 p.m. Each of these broadcasts will be streamed live online at SCCtv.net, so anyone in the world can watch online.

Called "an extraordinary film about one of Seattle's most innovative and compelling musical groups" (Seattle Symphony's Gerard Schwarz), this amazing work by John Sharify, the award-winning former KOMO 4 TV newsman, tells the story of MOR's first decade through interviews with artists, friends, and supporters.

Sharify says he "wanted to capture the electricity of being at a MOR performance," and he succeeded admirably in bringing to life the musical legacy that is at the heart of what MOR does: the audience hears the poignant stories behind Letter to Warsaw and Brundibár and For a Look or a Touch and more through Sharify's narration, and from Holocaust survivors, performers, and audience interviews.