LETTER TO KAMILLA - LIVE IN CONCERT
SUNDAY 20 MARCH 6PM
NEW WEST END SYNAGOGUE, BAYSWATER, LONDON W2
The long awaited album launch concert will take place on Sunday 20 March 6pm in the stunning surroundings of the New West End Synagogue in Bayswater. London. This is the first chance to hear all of the album songs, music both ancient and contemporary, sung live at our home synagogue with its gorgeous choral acoustic.
“In the case of the excellent vocal ensemble Mosaic Voices, instruments are not only cast aside but rendered unnecessary because the harmonisations (largely by baritone Benjamin Till) are so skilfully done. There’s a universal message on offer here that potentially calls out to everyone, so if a cappella music is your bag, do give it a try. My guess is that you’ll love it.”
Gramophone Magazine
"Sung with power and passion...simply heartbreaking" BBC Music Magazine
Background to the new album and the live concert from Mosaic Voices' Musical Director, Michael Etherton
"Exactly eighty years ago, my great grandmother Kamilla wrote a letter to her children. It was July 1942. Fortunately, her children had escaped Nazi-occupied Austria, but Kamilla had not been so lucky. She endured four terrifying years of brutality and unimaginable suffering. The letter to her children was the last thing she wrote before being sent to Theresienstadt then Auschwitz, where she was murdered. She did not know if her letter would ever reach her children.
Eighty years later, my vocal ensemble, Mosaic Voices, is writing back to her in the form of an album of Jewish songs. We want Kamilla to know that, although she, her husband, and her sister, Minka, lost their lives in the Holocaust, all her children survived, and lived their lives successfully and happily in Britain, as proud Jewish people. Hitler’s mission had failed.
Her moving letter, which Kamilla wrote in German, has been set to music as one of the songs on this album (Letter from Kamilla). The other tracks that we have chosen to record celebrate the diversity, mysticism, and beauty of the music that Jewish people have brought to the world over time."
Tickets are £10 and available in advance only. Refreshments at interval.
SUNDAY 20 MARCH 6PM
NEW WEST END SYNAGOGUE, BAYSWATER, LONDON W2
The long awaited album launch concert will take place on Sunday 20 March 6pm in the stunning surroundings of the New West End Synagogue in Bayswater. London. This is the first chance to hear all of the album songs, music both ancient and contemporary, sung live at our home synagogue with its gorgeous choral acoustic.
“In the case of the excellent vocal ensemble Mosaic Voices, instruments are not only cast aside but rendered unnecessary because the harmonisations (largely by baritone Benjamin Till) are so skilfully done. There’s a universal message on offer here that potentially calls out to everyone, so if a cappella music is your bag, do give it a try. My guess is that you’ll love it.”
Gramophone Magazine
"Sung with power and passion...simply heartbreaking" BBC Music Magazine
Background to the new album and the live concert from Mosaic Voices' Musical Director, Michael Etherton
"Exactly eighty years ago, my great grandmother Kamilla wrote a letter to her children. It was July 1942. Fortunately, her children had escaped Nazi-occupied Austria, but Kamilla had not been so lucky. She endured four terrifying years of brutality and unimaginable suffering. The letter to her children was the last thing she wrote before being sent to Theresienstadt then Auschwitz, where she was murdered. She did not know if her letter would ever reach her children.
Eighty years later, my vocal ensemble, Mosaic Voices, is writing back to her in the form of an album of Jewish songs. We want Kamilla to know that, although she, her husband, and her sister, Minka, lost their lives in the Holocaust, all her children survived, and lived their lives successfully and happily in Britain, as proud Jewish people. Hitler’s mission had failed.
Her moving letter, which Kamilla wrote in German, has been set to music as one of the songs on this album (Letter from Kamilla). The other tracks that we have chosen to record celebrate the diversity, mysticism, and beauty of the music that Jewish people have brought to the world over time."
Tickets are £10 and available in advance only. Refreshments at interval.