Music of Remembrance [SEP] inception
Music of Remembrance
Music of Remembrance is a classical music ensemble based in Seattle whose purpose is to find and perform music composed by victims of The Holocaust, irrespective of their background, as well as to perform related newly commissioned works.
History.
Music of Remembrance was founded 1998 in Seattle by Mina Miller, who is also president and artistic director, to find and perform music composed by victims of The Holocaust, irrespective of their background, as well as to perform related newly commissioned works.
The company presents
Living.
Eli Rubenstein has been involved with March of the Living since its inception in Canada in 1988. It is an annual educational program that brings together thousands of youth in Poland and Israel to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day and Israel's Independence Day. He assumed the role of National Director in 1989 and led his first Canadian delegation on the March in 1990, where he first encountered Elie Wiesel.
Wiesel features prominently in Rubenstein's published works, and he also produced the music for the TV special featuring Elie Wiesel's