Name: Fragility of Freedom: Terezin Lieder Joseph Middleton and Simon Wallfisch
Start: 2024-01-25T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-01-25T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Howard Assembly Room

Organization

Admin

Opera North

Pianist

Joseph Middleton

Baritone

Simon Wallfisch

Fragility of Freedom: Terezin Lieder Joseph Middleton and Simon Wallfisch

Leeds

United Kingdom

Howard Assembly Room

Fragility of Freedom: Terezin Lieder Joseph Middleton and Simon Wallfisch: Recital Various

Public

Private

Recital

Simon Samuel

Approved

For the third year in succession, the Howard Assembly Room presents a concert commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day, which this year has the theme Fragility of Freedom.

Pianist and Leeds Lieder director Joseph Middleton, together with baritone Simon Wallfisch, perform a hand-picked selection of songs by composers murdered in the holocaust, including Viktor Ullmann and Pawel Haas. Joseph comments, “I’m really pleased that Simon Wallfisch can do this recital. He’s the perfect singer for this concert… It will be thoughtful and sensitive and challenging.”

The duo will also present music by composers who were lucky to escape Nazi occupied Europe and live their lives in Exile in the US and UK, such as Kurt Weill, Erich Korngold, and Hans Gál, who escaped Vienna, was interned in the Isle of Man and went on to start the Edinburgh International Festival.

English

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Crew