Music
Kaddish: A Holocaust Memorial Concert
A powerful concert of remembrance
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
by Peter Tregear •
Benjamin Northey conducts Kaddish (photograph by Laura Manariti)
This concert was the fourth, and perhaps most immediately relevant, in a series of concerts conceived over the past six years by artist-in-residence Christopher Latham for the Australian War Memorial. As with the Diggers’ Requiem (2018), Vietnam Requiem (2021), and the Prisoners of War Requiem (2022), Latham has created a narrative to accompany a series of musical works intended to make the history it explored ‘more conscious, identified and understood’.
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Comments (2)
Honest and unswerving in its depiction across the whole,musical “adventure”.
The reference to current, international
events seems to reflect an appropriate
question, to be asked by future generations. Thank you. Roger H⯑