A recommendation for this weekend in Seattle: “Witness to Courage” — Music of Remembrance, 3pm Sunday, Oct 26
MOR opens its new season with the West Coast premiere of “Crossing Borders” by Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer (librettist of the Met’s hit “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay”). The song, for mezzo and piano, draws from a secret diary kept by a teenage girl escaping Nazi-occupied Paris.
Also featured: works by Géza Frid and William Hilsley, written in prison and exile, and Paul Schoenfield’s “Sparks of Glory,” inspired by Holocaust resisters.
Linking music born of exile to today’s immigrant realities, MOR partners with the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project and Jewish Family Service—donating 50 percent of ticket sales to support legal aid for immigrants across Washington, including those detained by ICE.
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MEMETERIA by Thomas May 