“Our commitment must be to remember the victims who perished, respect the survivors still with us, and reaffirm humanity's common aspiration for mutual understanding and justice.”
-- Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust
The Music of Theresienstadt
24.08.2016
On 8 September, the Wiener Library in London will host a lecture on the music of Theresienstadt by Professor Adam Gorb.
Professor Adam Gorb of the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester is an eminent composer and scholar on the subject of the music from the Theresienstadt concentration camp. The work of composers such as Viktor Ullmann, Hans Krasa, Gideon Klein and Pavel Haas will be considered. An original copy of the libretto (by Peter Kien) of Viktor Ullmann’s opera composed in Theresienstadt, The Emperor of Atlantis, is held in the library’s collections.
The event will take place from 6.30pm - 8 pm. For more information and to reserve your place, please consult the Wiener Library website.