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THE HAROLD HYAM WINGATE FOUNDATION
THE GARFIELD WESTON FOUNDATION

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Andy Morely-Hall

 

 

 

BOOK TICKETS:

15 July 2006 7.30pm
and
16 July 2006 2.30pm
UCL Bloomsbury Theatre
See also Pre-performance events:
Exhibition at The Jewish Museum
The Story Behind the Music
Children’s Art Workshop

18 July 2006 7.30pm
Fürth Stadtstheater Germany
[ www.stadttheater.fuerth.de ]
Exhibition at Caritas-Pirckheimer Haus

20 July 2006 7.30pm
Prague State Opera
[ www.bohemiaticket.cz ]
Exhibition at The Jubilee Synagogue

But anyway, I still believe I only sleep today,
That I'll wake up, a child again, and start to laugh and play.

Hanus Hachenburg was 13 when he was deported to Terezin. Whilst in the ghetto, he produced a wealth of extraordinary poetry. His voice was silenced in Auschwitz on December 18, 1943.

HMDT Music’s Hear Our Voice is a unique music education project, which uses the arts to increase young people's awareness and understanding of the dangers of prejudice and persecution and express their own feelings towards current issues of racial hatred and intolerance, culminating in performances of an inspiring new music theatre piece comprising poems, diaries and letters written by children during the Holocaust.

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HMDT Music (London) in partnership with the Internationales Kammermusik Festival (Nürnberg) and the Jewish Museum (Prague) will work with students in all three cities to develop the project in English, German and Czech and perform this important new work with the Fürth Streichhölzer Youth Orchestra under the baton of international conductor Peter Selwyn.

Giving life to this moving artistic response to the Holocaust are British composers Jonathan Dove and Matthew King, director Clare Whistler, and award winning Czech film maker Marta Hruba, who will work with students to develop Tertia Sefton-Green's powerful libretto into an uplifting drama in which young people of the present give voice to the words of children whose voices were prematurely silenced – children of the Holocaust.

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The project is in three phases

1. Innovative Schools’ Work
Newly designed teachers’ materials will use literature, music, art and drama to introduce the subject matter through the arts and provide sustainable resources for long-term use. Students will visit relevant historic heritage sites and museums, and meet with Holocaust survivors.

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2. Creative Workshops
Artists will lead workshops in each country to develop students’ creative responses to the libretto, enabling them to develop a range of skills and techniques in the areas of composition, vocal and dramatic interpretation, instrumental work, visual arts and film making.

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3. Performances and Tour
Composers Jonathan Dove and Matthew King will incorporate musical ideas developed by the students into a finished fully-scored music-theatre piece, thereby ensuring the new work is both of the highest artistic quality and a response of today’s students to words written by children who lived through the experiences of the Holocaust. An international tour involving students from each of the countries, will premiere in London in July 2006 and travel to each country, accompanied by an exhibition of their written responses and artwork.

 

Pre-performance Events

Art Exhibition
The performances are supported by an exhibition of student artwork from Prague, London and Nürnberg, which presents the response of today’s young people to the subject matter and draws on their own experiences and perspective of current issues of racism and persecution.

Jewish Museum
Sternberg Centre
80 East End Road
London N3 2SY

28 June – 31 August 2006

 

The Story Behind the Music
Composers Jonathan Dove and Matthew King discuss their unique collaborative experience of working on Hear Our Voice from the creative workshops in schools to the complex issues of writing in three languages. The evening includes musical illustrations giving an insight into the new score and readings by actress Louisa Clein.

Spiro Ark
25-26 Enford Street
London W1H 1DW

Wednesday 5th July 7.45pm
£7.00 £5.00 Concs Includes refreshments

 

 

Children’s Art workshop
Let Artist Ruth Paton draw you into the world of children who lived through the experiences of the Holocaust by creating your own artwork.

Jewish Museum
Sternberg Centre
80 East End Road
London N3 2SY

Sunday 2nd July
Workshops 2.30pm and 3.30pm
Suitable for children aged 8 upwards.

 

 

 

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