Dresden (dpa/sn) – On November 9, young musicians from Germany and the Ukraine will give a memorial concert in Dresden in memory of the pogrom night of 1938. They will play works that were written in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, as well as the world premiere of an Israeli composer, such as the Dresden Philharmonic announced on Wednesday. The young people also read texts from notebooks and memories of Jewish peers who were interned in Theresienstadt.
“Anti-Semitism is not just a specter of the past,” the concert announcement said. The current war in Ukraine is not the first to show how closely connected the European peoples are through their history. The German String Philharmonic takes this day as an opportunity to deal with it together with the audience.
The youngest national selection orchestra unites top talents among the string instrumentalists of the music schools. The 11 to 20 year olds meet several times a year for rehearsals and concerts. The concertmaster of the Dresden Philharmonic, Wolfgang Hentrich, has been its boss since 2013. The Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine also promotes talented musicians between the ages of 12 and 22; it was founded in 2016.
