Music of Remembrance

Music of Remembrance Press: Music from the Holocaust era is balanced with contemporary, Holocaust-inspired compositions.

Music of Remembrance (MOR) is a Seattle-based performing arts organization dedicated to addressing questions of human rights and social justice through the transformative power of music. Since our inaugural year, MOR has presented two mainstage concert programs annually at Seattle's Benaroya Hall, marking the anniversary of Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass) each fall, and Holocaust Remembr

ance Day each spring. Introduced by Mina Miller, these mainstage programs combine serious vocal and chamber music with works in popular cabaret and traditional folk styles. In our first decade, we presented nine commissioned premieres of Holocaust-inspired works and seventeen world premieres, and produced four CDs. In December 2008, MOR toured to Los Angeles, presenting the California premiere of our commission by composer Jake Heggie, For a Look or a Touch. Sparks of Glory, MOR's musical witness outreach series, is presented free to the public each season, and attracts an audience largely new to chamber music and this musical legacy. Thanks to our commitment to rediscovering forgotten works by Holocaust-era musicians and to performing contemporary pieces and commissions, Sparks of Glory has been funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and Chamber Music America. These 90-minute concerts-with-commentary form the heart of MOR's educational outreach program, which reaches almost 2,000 high school and college students annually in the greater Seattle area.

đź’¬ Inherited trauma. Profound wisdom. April 19 at the Stroum JCCđź’¬Join award-winning journalist Howard Reich and Paul Reg...
04/07/2026

đź’¬ Inherited trauma. Profound wisdom.
April 19 at the Stroum JCCđź’¬

Join award-winning journalist Howard Reich and Paul Regelbrugge (Holocaust Center for Humanity) for an intimate discussion about carrying history forward. We will explore:

✨ What it means to inherit trauma you never experienced
✨ How second and third generations become witnesses

Reich’s extraordinary conversations with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel in the final years of Wiesel’s life provided great insight and inspired The Dialogue of Memories—MOR’s new opera premiering this May in Seattle, San Francisco and Chicago - check out www.musicofremembrance.org for details.

Discussion moderated by Mina Miller, MOR Founder & Artistic Director.

đź“… April 19 | 3pm
đź“Ť Stroum JCC
🎟️ Reserve your spot: https://sjcc.org/event/howard-reichs-conversations/

🕯️ 80 years later, Elie Wiesel's voice is more urgent than ever.We’re proud to be a community sponsor of Elie Wiesel: So...
03/23/2026

🕯️ 80 years later, Elie Wiesel's voice is more urgent than ever.

We’re proud to be a community sponsor of Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire—a poetic and powerful documentary streaming through the Stroum Jewish Community Center.

Through personal archives and intimate family interviews, the film honors the life and legacy of the Nobel laureate, Holocaust survivor, and author of Night.

A moving reminder of why bearing witness still matters—now more than ever.

🎬 Streaming virtually through the Stroum JCC 📅 March 23–29
đź”— Watch here: https://seattlejff.org/events/sjff2026eliewieselsoulonfire-virtual/

🎭 Seven collaborations and counting. We’re thrilled to welcome back the visionary of for our upcoming production of Mi...
03/12/2026

🎭 Seven collaborations and counting.

We’re thrilled to welcome back the visionary of for our upcoming production of Milhaud’s “La création du monde” — reimagined with stunning new choreography that channels the bold artistic spirit of 1920s Paris. 🎶

📅 March 15 is almost here — and this is one night you do NOT want to miss. Grab your tickets now before it’s too late!

🎟️ Tickets: https://musicofremembrance.org/show-details/echoes

🎷 Jazz as resistance. This Sunday. 🎷UW Jazz Professor performs Manuel Rosenthal’s Marmalade Sonata—written by a compose...
03/11/2026

🎷 Jazz as resistance. This Sunday. 🎷

UW Jazz Professor performs Manuel Rosenthal’s Marmalade Sonata—written by a composer who organized concerts while imprisoned in a N**i POW camp.

Rosenthal didn’t just survive. He created. After liberation, he became Music Director of the Seattle Symphony.

Joining Brockman: 🎹 John Hansen - acclaimed jazz pianist and - acclaimed bassist

🗓️ Sunday, March 15 | 3PM |
🎫 Tickets: https://musicofremembrance.org/show-details/echoes

Josephine Baker: Performer. Spy. Icon. 🎭Honoring Women’s History Month.Josephine Baker fled American racism to become Eu...
03/08/2026

Josephine Baker: Performer. Spy. Icon. 🎭

Honoring Women’s History Month.

Josephine Baker fled American racism to become Europe’s highest-paid entertainer. When N**i Germany occupied France, she didn’t run to safety—she joined the resistance.

Baker attended N**i parties, gathered intelligence and wrote secrets in invisible ink on her sheet music. and smuggled messages across borders.

After the war, she refused to perform for segregated audiences: “I shall dance for nobody until I am able to dance for everybody.” She spoke at the 1963 March on Washington alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

This Women’s History Month, experience her legacy.

On March 15, chanteuse joins MOR’s stage to perform songs Baker made famous.

🎵 Echoes of Conscience | March 15 | 3PM |
🎫 Tickets: https://musicofremembrance.org/show-details/echoes

📺 Watch Baker perform one of the pieces on MOR’s March 15 program, “J’ai deux amours”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN67OMR43_o

🎷 Jazz wasn’t just music. It was defiance.For the first time, MOR puts jazz at the heart of Echoes of Conscience — honor...
02/26/2026

🎷 Jazz wasn’t just music. It was defiance.

For the first time, MOR puts jazz at the heart of Echoes of Conscience — honoring a tradition born from resilience, freedom, and cultural resistance.

Josephine Baker’s iconic songs — performed by chanteuse
Baker wasn’t just a performer — she was a spy, passing intelligence to the French Resistance using invisible ink on her sheet music.

“Echoes of Conscience” | March 15 | 3p.m. | Benaroya Hall
Tickets: https://musicofremembrance.org/show-details/echoes

🎵 Art as resistance. Music as protest. Movement as witness. Echoes of Conscience brings together jazz, classical music, ...
02/23/2026

🎵 Art as resistance. Music as protest. Movement as witness.

Echoes of Conscience brings together jazz, classical music, and world premiere dance to ask a question we’re all living with: What does this moment demand of us?

✨ World premiere choreography by 🎷 Saxophone by UW Jazz Professor 🎤 Songs of civil rights icon Josephine Baker performed by chanteuse 🎼 Milhaud’s radical La création du monde — jazz and classical united in defiance.

“Echoes of Conscience” | March 15 | 3p.m. |
Tickets: https://musicofremembrance.org/show-details/echoes

11/25/2025

As a gift to our community, we’re streaming Hilsley’s “Dance Pieces” - radiant works written in the Kreuzberg concentration camp that remind us creativity and hope endured even in the darkest times.

Performed by violist and MOR’s Young Artist recipient, violinist .elf

Watch the full video through December 1 at the link in our bio.

🏆✨ GRAMMY NOMINATION! ✨🏆We’re beyond thrilled to celebrate longtime MOR collaborator Dmitriy Lipay on his 2026 GRAMMY no...
11/08/2025

🏆✨ GRAMMY NOMINATION! ✨🏆

We’re beyond thrilled to celebrate longtime MOR collaborator Dmitriy Lipay on his 2026 GRAMMY nomination for Classical Producer of the Year! 🎶👏

This well-deserved honor recognizes Dmitriy’s brilliant work, including on MOR’s commission, Before It All Goes Dark — a powerful opera by composer and librettist Gene Scheer, featuring and .marino.music with conductor and the MOR Ensemble. 💫

Congratulations, Dmitriy — this recognition is so well deserved! 👏

đź’« Standing ovation for Witness to Courage! đź’«Thank you for making Witness to Courage unforgettable. The music honored cou...
10/28/2025

đź’« Standing ovation for Witness to Courage! đź’«
Thank you for making Witness to Courage unforgettable. The music honored courage in the darkest times—and MOR is donating 50% of ticket sales directly to organizations defending immigrants and refugees today.

That connection between past and present is why we do this work.
Each commission, each story we share, each life we honor—it's made possible by supporters who believe music can bear witness and inspire action.

🎵 Your gift today ensures MOR keeps giving voice to the voiceless.
Donate now: https://wl.donorperfect.net/weblink/weblink.aspx?name=E12620&id=13
Thank you for being part of this community. 🙏

🎵TOMORROW is the show!🎵 Immerse yourself in stories of hope, exile, and courage!Learn about the challenges of refugees i...
10/25/2025

🎵TOMORROW is the show!🎵

Immerse yourself in stories of hope, exile, and courage!

Learn about the challenges of refugees in our community today from leaders on the frontlines!

🗓️ Sunday, Oct 26

Panel: 2:30 PM | Concert: 3:00 PM

đź“Ť Benaroya Hall

🎫 Tickets: https://musicofremembrance.org/show-details/witness

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