
Music of Remembrance Partners with Immigrant Rights Advocates in Season Opener
By Afton Markay(Photo credit: Ben Van Houten)
Music of Remembrance will launch its 2025-26 season in partnership with Immigrant Rights Advocates on Oct. 26.
The season opener, “Witness to Courage,” highlights stories of those displacement and their resistance. The event begins with a public conversation featuring leaders from Music of Remembrance, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP), and Jewish Family Service (JFS) on today’s immigration struggles and how Seattle communities can act in solidarity. Together, the partners will link history to the present through music created and inspired by refugees of the Holocaust alongside the crucial work of defending immigrants under threat today.
The concert features music by William Hilsley, Géza Frid, and Paul Schoenfield, along with the West Coast premiere of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s “Crossing Borders,” based on a teenage girl’s secret diary as her family escaped Nazi-occupied Paris.
In a first-time partnership, 50 percent of ticket sales will be donated to NWIRP, which provides legal aid to immigrants across Washington state, including those detained by ICE.
“This partnership is powerful because it fuses memory with action,” said Malou Chávez, Executive Director of Northwest Immigrant Rights Project in a press release. Chávez continued, “Directly impacted communities and their loved ones are suffering every day under detention and deportation, and art can move people to stand in solidarity. With this concert, MOR puts money behind the message.”
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