Reawakening Suppressed Music

EVENTS

EVENTS

FPS Home Away From Home

Saturday 22 February 2025 6:30 – 7:45 pm 

Trinity Church, 15 Nether St, London N12 7NN

Programme

Works by Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, Robert (Bob) Hanf, Robert Kahn, Hans Krieg, Leo Smit and Rosy Wertheim

Adaya Peled, soprano

Shelley Katz, Conductor

The Symphonova

Booking: Sold Out!

£40 suggested donation per person including wine and cheese

All profits going towards building fund

International Opera Foundation

Saturday 29 March 2025

Belgrade

Programme

Works by Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, Robert (Bob) Hanf, Robert Kahn, Hans Krieg, Leo Smit and Rosy Wertheim

Marija Jellic, soprano

Shelley Katz, Conductor

The Symphonova

Wiener Holocaust Library

Monday 28 April 2025

29 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DP

Programme

Works by Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, Robert (Bob) Hanf, Robert Kahn, Hans Krieg, Leo Smit and Rosy Wertheim

Adaya Peled, soprano

Shelley Katz, Conductor

The Symphonova

Dr Barbara Warnock, presentor 

Revealing Suppressed Culture: Lost Histories in the Archives of The Wiener Holocaust Library

In this talk, Dr Barbara Warnock, Senior Curator and Head of Education at The Wiener Holocaust Library in London, will explore some of the traces and records of culture suppressed during the Nazi era that are contained in the Library’s extensive archives. Founded in 1934 in Amsterdam as an anti-Nazi organisation and based in London since 1939, The Wiener Holocaust Library is the world’s oldest and Britain’s largest archive of document on the Nazi era and the Holocaust. The Library’s archives include precious collections relating to art, photography and culture labelled as ‘degenerate’ by the Nazis including Peter Kien’s original libretto for Der Kaiser von Atlantis oder der Tod dankt ab (The Emperor of Atlantis, or Death Abdicates), written in Theresienstadt camp and ghetto, an anti-Nazi opera composed by Victor Ullmann; artworks by Fred (Fritz) Kormis, a Jewish sculptor and printmaker ordered to stop working by the Nazi regime in 1933, and the powerful portrait photography of Gerty Simon, who was forced into exile early in the Nazi era. The Wiener Library’s archives also contain vital records of Jewish cultural life in ghettos, such as Philipp Manes’ diaries and journals from Theresienstadt. The talk will reveal the stories of these artworks and records, and examine the vital role of archives in preserving suppressed culture.

 

The evening’s programme will consist of a presentation by Dr Barbara Warnock (Wiener Holocaust Library) and a performance of a selection of orchestral works recorded as part of the project and conducted  by Shelley Katz using the Symphonova. 

Booking: Info@symphonova.com

PAST EVENTS

Dr. Alfred Bader (CBE) 100th Birthday Commemoration

28 April 2024, 2:30 to 4:30pm

Friends House Library, Euston, London NW1 2BJ

Booking: By invitation only

Music

Shelley Katz – Conductor

Helen Bailey – Soprano

Hans Krieg – Jiskor for soprano and orchestra

Robert Kahn – Praeludium for soprano and orchestra

Joe Kraemer – Tribute for Alfred Bader for Orchestra

Presentations 

Dr Barbara Warnock – Wiener Holocaust Library

Marian McNichol – the Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network

Prof Jeremy Sanders CBE – Cambridge University 

This commemorative event celebrates the life of Dr. Alfred Bader CBE (1924 to 2018). Alfred led an extraordinary life; he was a child refugee on the Kindertransport, a chemist, a businessman who founded the Aldrich Chemical Company, an art collector and philanthropist.  

His philanthropy supported and continues, through Bader Philanthropies, to support many organizations and people close to his heart, including all three hosts of this event: Quakers in Britain, the Wiener Holocaust Library and Symphonova UK.

The event will feature speakers and music pertinent to Alfred Bader’s life. Dr Barbara Warnock from the Wiener Holocaust Library will talk about the Kindertransport, Marian McNichol, from the Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network will speak on how Quakers are advocating for refugees today, and Prof Jeremy Sanders CBE will speak about Alfred’s contribution to the world through chemistry.

Led by Dr Shelley Katz conducting the Symphonova the musical part of the evening will consist of orchestral music, including works by Hans Krieg and Robert Kahn who suffered under the Holocaust, and a new composition written for the occasion by Joe Kraemer.

St Richard's Catholic College

Tuesday 5 November 2024   6:30 – 7:30 pm

Ashdown Rd, Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 1SE

Programme

Works by Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, Robert (Bob) Hanf, Robert Kahn, Hans Krieg, Leo Smit and Rosy Wertheim

Adaya Peled, soprano

Shelley Katz, Conductor

The Symphonova

Booking: Private event for the school community

Mansfield Christian Community Centre

Saturday 9 November 2024   6:00 – 7:30 pm 

1 Woodhouse Road, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, NG18 2AD

Programme

Works by Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, Robert (Bob) Hanf, Robert Kahn, Hans Krieg, Leo Smit and Rosy Wertheim

Shelley Katz, Conductor

The Symphonova

Booking: Entrance Free. Email to reserve your seat: mansfieldcommunitycentre@cogop.org.uk

Forbidden Music Regained Festival

Saturday 30 November 2024   5:00 – 6:00 pm 

Amsterdam

Works by Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, Robert (Bob) Hanf, Robert Kahn, Hans Krieg, Leo Smit and Rosy Wertheim 

Channa Malkin, soprano

Shelley Katz, Conductor

The Symphonova

Booking: Details will be published shortly 

Workshop for Conductors

Sunday 1 December 2024

Amsterdam Conservatory

Programme

Works by Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, Robert (Bob) Hanf, Robert Kahn, Hans Krieg, Leo Smit and Rosy Wertheim

Adaya Peled, soprano

Shelley Katz, Conductor

The Symphonova

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