Charleston, South Carolina — An group that promotes the discovery and performance of music by composers who witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust will hold a concert in Charleston on Thursday evening.
Holocaust Music Lost & Found (HMLF) seeks to ensure that such pieces are not lost to time.
“Like last week, we held a concert where the music was literally found in The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.” “And those boxes had been sitting there for 80 years,” HMLF Founder Janie Press stated.
HMLF, in collaboration with the Polish Chamber Musicians’ Association, will perform a free concert in Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim on Thursday at 7 p.m.
“Through music, you can feel the strength of life – their unimaginable willingness to survive,” Pianist Grzegorz Mania stated. Mania will perform pieces by the composers, including Szymon Laks, who conducted the men’s orchestra in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
“The people who wrote this music, wrote it under the worst conditions imaginable,” according to the press. “There’s just an extraordinary treasure chest of beautiful, beautiful music.”
