Memory Brings Us Together Holocaust Memorial Concert

$30 senior and student tickets are available. Call the box office at 212 501 3330.

Experience the magnificent music of Fryderyk Chopin, including his classics from Roman Polanski’s "The Pianist,'' Discover works by the eponymous pianist Władysław Szpilman, deeply human music of the Holocaust survivors: Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Szymon Laks - head of the Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoners Orchestra, Roman Ryterband, and Alexandre Tansman, saved by Charlie Chaplin.

This moving concert organized on the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is a tribute to the people who performed extraordinary acts of courage in defense of human dignity during World War II and the Holocaust.The evening will begin with an exhibition, followed by a historical footage and a concert featuring outstanding artists from Poland, Canada and Ukraine

Exhibition: Trails of Hope, The Odyssey of Freedom and a welcome drink at 7pm.
Concert with historical footage at 8pm.

Daniel Vnukowski, piano
Duo Karolina Mikołajczyk, violin & Ivo Jedynecki, accordion
Liana Paniyeva, piano

FRYDERYK CHOPIN - Nocturne in C-sharp Minor Op. Posth
WŁADYSŁAW SZPILMAN - Mazurka in F-Minor
SZYMON LAKS - Ballade "Hommage a Chopin"
MIECZYSŁAW WEINBERG - Two songs without words, for violin and piano. Piano part arranged by Ivo Jedynecki
MIECZYSŁAW WEINBERG - Piano Sonata in B-Minor Op.56 No.4
FRYDERYK CHOPIN - Prelude Op.28, No.13
FRYDERYK CHOPIN - Nocturne in E-flat Major Op.9 No.2 for violin and piano. Piano part arranged by Ivo Jedynecki
ALEKSANDER TANSMAN - Cinq Pieces for violin and piano. Piano part arranged by Ivo Jedynecki
ALEKSANDER TANSMAN - Selections from Quatrième recueil de Mazurkas pour piano
ROMAN RYTERBAND - Oberek from Suite Polonaise
FRYDERYK CHOPIN - Ballade in F-minor Op.52 No.4