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Subject: [SUPPRESSED-MUSIC] International Conference on Concentrazionary
Music Literature
From:    "Claude Torres" <[log in to unmask]>
Date:    Sun, September 30, 2007 5:00 pm
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ISTITUTO MUSICA JUDAICA
Istituto di ricerca della musica concentrazionaria
via dell'Industria 93
70051 BARLETTA
Italia
tel/fax +39 0883950639 - cell +39 3402381725
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Association M U S I K S T R A S S E
Via Romeo Romei 15
00136 ROME Italia
in collaboration with
Cultural and Spectacles Councillorship - Regione Lazio
Third University of Rome
Union of Italian Jewish Communities
with the support of EUROPEAN UNION
presents
MUSICA CONCENTRATIONARIA
International Conference on Concentrazionary Music Literature and première
of the CONGRESS HALL of the Library and Museum of BURCARDO
via del Sudario, 44 R O M E Italy

°DANIELA CONTINO °GUIDO FACKLER °RENZO GATTEGNA °FRANCESCO LOTORO
°ELENA MAKAROVA °DAVID MEGHNAGI °DAMIEN TOP °BRET WERB
will report on the following topics:
°The concentrationary music production °The CD-Encyclopedia KZ MUSIK
°The borders of the human nature in Camps °Music in Terezìn °French
Musicians in Germans Oflags and Stalags °Phenomenology of concentrationary
music

moderator FRANCO BIXIO


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Searching for Lost Music. Concentrationary Music Literature is the music
production (lyric, symphonic, chamber, instrumental, pianistic, vocal,
choir music) of various kinds (from classical music to cabaret, jazz,
religious Songs, folk and traditional, comrade music, popular,
entertainment and variety, operetta and music for children till fragments
or reconstructed scores after the War) produced from 1933 (when the Camps
of Dachau and Börgermoor were open) to 1945 (end of the 2nd World War and
liberation of the Camps) by imprisoned, deported, murdered, survived
musicians coming from any national, social and religious background in
imprisonment, transit, labour, concentration Camps, military jails, POW's,
Oflag and Stalag Camps of Germany, Italy, Japan, Republic of Salò, Vichy
Regìme and other Axis' countries, Great Britain, France, URSS and other
Allies' countries.


In 1991 Francesco Lotoro, a pianist from Barletta, started to work on a
research about all the music works written in every concentration Camp
with the purpose to collect, catalogue and play them in concerts and also
to create a complete CD-Recording.

Therefore he took up researches in specialized Memorials, Museums,
Archives, Libraries and bookshop in Australia, Austria, Croatia, Czech
Republic, France, Germany, Denmark, Italy, Israel, The Netherlands,
Poland, Hungary, Russia basing himself on phylological and musicological
works on concentrationary by Martin Anderson, Fjetje Auslaender, Jana
Belisova, David Bloch, Marianne Dacy, Alan Ehrlich, Guido Fackler, Werner
Gruenzweig, Joza Karas, Gabriele Knapp, Robert Kolben, Elena Makarova,
Rénald Ruiter, Ingo Schultz, Bret Werb and Blanka Cervinkova (deceased),
searching for some survived Musicians and some relatives of deceased ones.
After more than 15 years 4,000 musical operas, thousands of microfilms,
diaries, autograph musicalbooks, dozen of audio cassettes, film clips
containing music performed in concentration Camps by Swedish broadcasting
companies (Sweden was a neutral Country during the 2nd World War) and
music remembered by heart by survived Musicians have been collected.


In 2006 the publishing house Musikstrasse decided to publish the complete
concentrationay music Literature in a CD-Encyclopedia titled KZ MUSIK that
has reached its 6th CD-volume. KZ MUSIK is recorded every month in Foggia.
Lotoro is recording as a pianist (piano solo, chamber piano, piano and
orchestra, etc.) and as a conductor for small orchestra; for all the
remaining repertoire, a lot of musicians and some of the best performers
in Puglia (the virtuoso violinist Giovanni Zonno, the baritone Angelo De
Leonardis, the sopranos Libera Granatiero, Anna Stella Pansini and Rosa
Sorice, the cellist Antonio Sanarica, the flutist Pasquale Rinaldi, etc.),
the Choir of the University of Foggia conducted by Nicola Marasco as well
as the conductors Benedetto Montebello, Damien Top, Paolo Candido are
collaborating with him .


In 2007, thanks to Regione Lazio and to the 3rd University of Rome, the
International Library of concentrationary music Literature in was founded;
the artistic and scientific management was entrusted to Lotoro and to
David Meghnagi, well-known Professor of Medical Psychology at the same
University and Director of the International Master on Didactics of the
Shoah .

From March to July 2007 Lotoro, charged by Musikstrasse with the support
of the European Union, crossed nearly all Europe and Israel with the
director Ermanno Felli and his friend and colleague Gianni Cuciniello
searching for survived Musicians as well as their relatives to interview
them, most of all to deepen the tragic events of deportation and to know
about their ability of composing and playing music while living in a
situation of captivity and isolation.
Lotoro tried to agree upon a mutual affection with the interviewers
essentially to know more about the soul of the musician that in a
concentration o death Camp didn't stop his creative energy but, on the
contrary, multiplied it clinging themselves mentally, physically at Music
or at some instruments (or simply singing lonely or singing choral Songs).


Music often saved their life (the guitarrist Coco Shuman and the
trumpetist Paul Aron Sandfort to Theresienstadt) ; in other cases,
composing became a way to alienate from the reality that surrounded them
becoming so popular that not even the authorities of the Camp could stop
it (the singers Sarah Bialas to Gross-Rosen and Ester Refael to Auschwitz)
.
For most of the Musicians, playing was the way to express the highest
level of professionalism even if it didn't prevent the death of a lot of
them; the survived musicians are conscious that staying alive was as a
fortune, Music certainly wouldn't have saved them from moving into death
Camps (the harpsychordist Zuzana Ruzickova, the pianist Edith Kraus) .

Some interviews to the Musicians' relatives have been absolutely
indispensable for the knowledge of musical phenomenology in concentration
Camps; their interviews are not only as an example of preservation of the
Memory from generation to generation but they have also been a huge
resource to find further music items written in Camps.
The result of this enormous, often exhausting but inalienable work is
today converged in the DVD-Documentary Musica Concentrationaria (56
minutes + extra clips).

The results of this research will be exposed in an International
Conference that will take place in Rome on October, 29 at 9.30 AM at the
Library of Burcardo (via del Sudario 44, Rome - Italia) where the première
of the Documentary will be projected.
Francesco Lotoro, David Meghnagi and other illustrious Professors,
Musicologists and Musicians that by means of their studies, publications
and researches made a great tribute to the international knowledge of the
music written in concentration Camps will take part to the Conference :
Prof. Guido Fackler from the University of Wü rzburg, Dr. Bret Werb from
the Holocaust Memorial Museum of Washington, Maestro Damien Top of Albert
Russel Foundation, Drs. Elena Makarova from Jerusalem .

The Conference will be coordinated by Franco Bixio, producer of the DVD.
Daniela Contino, Managing Cultural Services of the Cultural Councillorship
of Regione Lazio and Renzo Gattegna, President of the Union of Italian
Jewish Communities will also take part at this event.

The Documentary MUSICA CONCENTRATIONARIA contains the following interviews:

Bernard Gouè, son of Emile - deported to the Oflag XB Niemburg/Weser

Friedrich Gürtler, son of Hermann - deported to Bolzano

Waldemar Kropinski, son of Jozef - deported to Buchenwald

Ivan Karel, son of Rudolf - imprisoned in Pankràc Praha and deported to
Theresienstadt

Ruth Levin, daughter of Leibu - deported to a Soviet Camp

Elisabeth Thiriet, daughter of Maurice - deported to the Stalag IXA
Spangenburg

Jean-Christoph Lannoy, son of Robert - deported to the Stalag XVIIB
Gneixendorf

Peter Koppitz, nephew of Charles Abeles - deported to Alberobello

Coco Shuman, guitarrist - deported to Theresienstadt

Paul Aron Sandfort, trumpetist deported to Theresienstadt

Zuzana Ruzickova, harpsychordist deported to Theresienstadt

Sarah Bialas Tennenberg, singer deported to Gross-Rosen

Ester Refael, singer deported to Auschwitz

Chaim Refael, accordeonist deported to Auschwitz

Greta Klinsberg Hoffmeister, singer deported to Theresienstadt

Edith Kraus, pianist deported to Theresienstadt

Uri Spitzer, percussionist deported in a British Camp of Mauritius Islands

and also

David Meghnagi, Professor of Medical Psicology to the Third University of
Rome

Guido Fackler, Professor of German Philology to the University of Würzburg

·Damien Top, conductor and President of the Albert Russel Foundation

Albrecht Dümling, hystorian, musicologist and member of Musica Reanimata

Milan Slavicky, musicologist and writer specialized on Music written in
Theresienstadt

Elenoire Pamejier, flutist and pupil of Marius Flothuis (deported to Vught
and Sachsenhausen)





Claude Torres