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Conductor does cool rendition of music first played by Auschwitz Symphony Orches

When British composer and conductor Leo Geyer was commission...
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they were forced to perform as entertainment for the guards....
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Date: December 10th, 2023 7:32 PM
Author: Contagious crystalline meetinghouse personal credit line

When British composer and conductor Leo Geyer was commissioned to write a piece of music in memory of a Holocaust historian, he decided to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial and museum on a research mission.

But he never imagined that while visiting the site of the extermination camp once operated in Nazi-occupied Poland, he'd get his hands on the manuscripts of original compositions written by members of a prisoner orchestra nearly a century ago.

"I had a conversation with one of the archivists about [the orchestras]. And he then said in this very offhand way, 'Oh, yeah, well, there's manuscripts in the archives,'" Geyer told As It Happens guest host Peter Armstrong.

"I nearly fell over when he told me, because I couldn't believe that such a thing could exist, and it had been overlooked all of this time."

Most of the 210 musical documents the archivist showed Geyer were printed songs and arrangements given to the orchestras to play publicly, including as entertainment for guards. But a handful of manuscripts were original, unsigned manuscripts, likely written by a prison orchestra member in secret.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/sheet-music-written-by-auschwitz-prisoners-collected-dust-for-decades-this-british-composer-restored-it-1.7046374#:~:text=As%20It%20Happens-,Sheet%20music%20written%20by%20Auschwitz%20prisoners%20collected%20dust%20for%20decades,people%20better%20understand%20Holocaust%20history.

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Date: December 10th, 2023 7:34 PM
Author: multi-colored site

Auschwitz conductor frantically shushing everyone, musicians hiding instruments as guard approaches.

"Nope, we didn't hear anything!"

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Date: December 10th, 2023 7:37 PM
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Date: December 10th, 2023 7:39 PM
Author: puce abode athletic conference

they were forced to perform as entertainment for the guards. absolutely evil to use music in such a way

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Date: December 10th, 2023 10:49 PM
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Lmao

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Date: December 10th, 2023 10:43 PM
Author: cordovan splenetic church building

180

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Date: December 11th, 2023 9:01 AM
Author: Contagious crystalline meetinghouse personal credit line



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