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2018

April, 24
Rachmaninov hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky conservatory

MUSIC BEHIND BARBED WIRE: THERESIENSTADT

Composers of Theresienstadt

Music in the Terezín concentration camp
From November 1941, the Czech town of Terezín (German: Theresienstadt) was used as a concentration camp by the Nazi regime. The number of people deported to this small garrison town increased rapidly. Among them there were numerous artists, some of whom tried to continue writing or performing in the camp. Thus it was under these absurd circumstances, Terezín being both a transit point to extermination camps and a propaganda tool for the Nazis, that a cultural and social life developed that, though within strict limits, allowed the detainees, to a certain degree at any rate, to preserve their dignity.

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Program: Pavel Haas (1899-1944), Hans Krasa (1899-1944), Gideon Klein (1916-1945), Siegmund Schull (1916-1944), Viktor Ullmann (1898-1944)

Performers:
String Quartet Studio for New Music
Stanislav Malyshev, violin
Inna Zilberman, violin
Anna Burchik, viola
Olga Kalinova, cello

Speech:
Victoria Romanenko and Arthur Vakha

Moderation 
Vera Serebryakova