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The driving rhythms, arching melodies and orchestral panache of Hans Kr谩sa鈥檚 Overture for Small Orchestra barely hint at the place it was written: the Theresienstadt ghetto. It proved impossible to perform Kr谩sa鈥檚 Overture in Theresienstadt, unlike Pavel Haas鈥檚 Study for Strings, written and played there in 1943. The angry cross rhythms and Moravian tunes typical of the composer fill this concise but powerful work.

Kr谩sa and Haas were both murdered at Auschwitz. Erwin Schulhoff met his end at a camp in W眉lzburg. After a career marked by his interest in surrealism and jazz, Schulhoff鈥檚 Symphony No 5, completed in 1939, appears to revel in the plushness of the symphony orchestra. What soon emerges is a score charged with tension and foreboding, whose culmination in unrestrained aggression now seems unsettlingly prophetic.

Please note that the events in this Total Immersion day deal with subjects of a distressing nature.

Total Immersion day tickets available for 拢48.