Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer’s Holocaust mini-drama – something between a song cycle and a chamber opera – takes the form of a dialogue between the living and the dead. Gad Beck, a holocaust survivor nearly eighty years old, is visited by the ghost of his nineteen-year-old lover, Manfred, who perished in the camps. Both men had been persecuted by the Nazis for homosexual activity.

Heggie: For a Look or a Touch 
Schwarz: In Memoriam 
Laitman: The Seed of Dream

The Seattle performance group brings attention to the gay victims of the Nazis.

By Richard S. Ginell
Los Angeles Times
December 6, 2008

Not only is it no longer unusual to encounter Holocaust-inspired projects in the concert hall and opera house, the subject may well be inexhaustible. Seattle even has its own performance group, Music of Remembrance, dedicated to this field.

By John Sutherland | Special to The Seattle Times
Monday, November 3, 2008

By Gregory Berg

By Chris Shull 

By John Sutherland
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Music of Remembrance presented its final concert of the season on Monday night at the Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, and after 10 years, the group continues to remind us of one of the most severe lessons in human history, preserving vital works of music while sparking new ones.

By R.M. CAMPBELL, SEATTLE P-I MUSIC CRITIC

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

It would seem that Music of Remembrance, a chamber music organization dedicated to performing music from or about the Holocaust, is newly born, but in fact it is celebrating its 10th anniversary.

On Monday the organization closed its season at Nordstrom Recital Hall with an all-embracing and moving concert.

By Gavin Borchert