Welcome to Music of remembrance
2017-18 Season Announcement
Music of Remembrance's 2017-18 season will feature two new music commissions on Japanese and Japanese-American war experience by composers Keiko Fujiie and Christophe Chagnard.
Spring Concert: Ceija May 21, 2017, Seattle
The Holocaust touched people of countless faces, places and identities. At our spring concert we present MOR’s next large music commission: a daring new work about the experience of Europe's Roma people during the Holocaust.
"The Boys of Terezín" Documentary Film
Five Holocaust survivors, a boychoir, and a chamber music group unite to tell the story of the secret concentration camp journal created under the nose of their Nazi captors.
MOR returns to San Francisco on May 24, 2017
The varied program brings MOR's next large commission: a new work about the experience of Europe’s Roma people during the Holocaust. The concert also features San Francisco Opera favorite Catherine Cook in a performance of songs from the Vilna Ghetto.
"Out of Darkness" - An Opera of Survival
Read the latest reviews and view photos from MOR's May 2016 world premiere of Jake Heggie's "Out of Darkness". Performances took place at Seattle's Benaroya Hall on May 22, 2016, and at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music on May 25-26, 2016.
MOR's latest Naxos CD release now available!
MOR's latest Naxos recording featuring Tom Cipullo's "After Life" and Lori Laitman's "In Sleep The World Is Yours" is now available!
We Remember
Through music, we remember musicians and artists who faced the Holocaust without surrendering their humanity or their art.
