Events, readings, concerts & more
UPCOMING • 2023
Events in green are open to the public. Please join us! Contact us to arrange an event. Masterclass
Monday, June 12, 2023, 10:00 AM Philharmonic Hall, Ulanbataar, Mongolia Masterclass Tuesday, June 13, 2023, 10:00 AM Philharmonic Hall, Ulanbataar, Mongolia Lecture on Terezín's Art & Music Tuesday, June 13, 2023, 02:30 PM US Embassy, Ulanbataar, Mongolia Masterclass Wednesday, June 14, 2023, 10:00 AM Philharmonic Hall, Ulanbataar, Mongolia Concert with Mongolia Music Academy Wednesday, June 14, 2023, 06:00 PM Philharmonic Hall, Ulanbataar, Mongolia Two Afternoon Lectures at Tanglewood
Tanglewood Center for Music and Learning. Tanglewood Immersion Series Studio E, 3A W Hawthorne Rd,, Lenox, MA 01240 Friday, August 11, 2023, 04:30 PM
DEFIANT Music Part I Degenerate Music—Voices That Could Not Be Silenced TMF director and Fulbright scholar Mark Ludwig explores the Nazi "cultural cleansing" policy targeting jazz, modernist, and non-Aryan—including all Jewish—composers before and during World War II. This will include a sampling of art, historical photos, and performance videos.
Saturday, August 12, 2023, 03:30 PM DEFIANT Music Part II "Our Will To Live" — Music and Art in Terezín Mark Ludwig presents an artistic and musical journey into the astonishing cultural community of imprisoned musicians and artists in Terezín, a Nazi camp where 33,000 people died. This program will include art and historical photos with live performances by BSO members. 
2023 TMF Annual Gala
Join us to celebrate the female artists at the center of Terezín’s remarkable cultural community. We’ll meet songwriters, virtuoso pianists, opera singers, and cabaret artists and experience a vibrant program of works they composed and performed. Their long-silenced voices will fill a contemporary concert hall for the first time. |
RECORDED • listen or watch anytime:
Radio Broadcast WFMT Chicago. Listen here. Mark Ludwig's 1991 stellar interview with Studs Terkel is supplemented with new conversation about Our Will to Live and its music tracks. An iconic conversation about discovery, music, and history. Podcasts "HERE & THERE" with host David Marash Broadcast on KSFR — Sante Fe Public Radio 101.1 FM. Podcast available online here. "Warfare of Art & Law" Interview with Mark Ludwig. Musical excerpts. On Apple, Spotify, or here. YouTube Holocaust Remembrance Day, Watch here. A beautiful and inspiring conversation with Auschwitz survivor and eminent psychiatrist Dr. Anna Ornstein and TMF executive director Mark Ludwig. On this occasion—her 96h birthday—Anna talked about her childhood in Nazi-occupied Hungary, the murder of most of her family, her internment in Auschwitz with her mother, and her life after liberation. She reads from her memoir, “My Mother’s Eyes,” and—most importantly—offers a profound, urgent message for today. An unforgettable visit with an exceptional mind. PAST EVENTS
Reading with Art & Live Music Monday, June 13, 2022 Bohemian National Hall, New York Author Mark Ludwig directed a program with performances by celebrated artists: violinist Michael Ludwig and pianist Beth Levin. Cosponsored by Terezín Music Foundation and the Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews, the Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Reading with Art & Music Friday, August 19, 2022 The Jewish Federation of the Berkshires hosted Mark Ludwig in its "Nosh and Knowledge" series. Reading & Discussion September 20, 2022. Instituto Chileno Norteamericano, Santiago, Chile. Education Program October 3, 2022. Instituto Hebraico, Santiago, Chile. Lecture: "The Arts in the Terezín Concentration Camp" Tuesday, October 18, 2022. Boston College Sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts and co-sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program, the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning, and the Film Studies program. Discussion with Art & Live Music Wednesday, October 26, 2022. Jackson Art Center at Bristol Community College "Children of the Shoah." Pianist Virginia Eskin and Holocaust music scholar Mark Ludwig in a program of works by Viktor Ullmann, Gideon Klein, Erwin Schulhoff and Ari Sussmann. The concert featured the world premiere of Ari Sussmann’s piano work inspired by poems by Richard Hoffmann's poems about portraits of Anne Frank and Steve Ross at the Bristol Community College’s Button Project. The commission is a joint project between the Holocaust and Genocide Studies Department of BCC and the Terezín Music Foundation. Lecture Thursday, November 3, 1:30 PM Tufts University Reading with Art & Live Music Monday, November 7, 2022. Goethe Institute Boston Performances by acclaimed artists: saxophonist Philipp Stäudlin and pianist Yoko Hagino. Sponsored by the Consulate General of Germany, Goethe Institut Boston, and Terezín Music Foundation. Webinar: Reading, Art & Music November 8 & 9, 2022. Sydney Jewish Museum, Sydney, Australia. Reading with Art & Music Monday, November 14, 2022. Milim: Culture and Heritage for All, UK. Art & Live Music December 17, 2022. Temple Beth Zion, Brookline, MA. Coro Allegro, Brookline High School Camerata, and members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra performed works focusing on the light of creativity amidst darkness, concluding with songs of Hanukah. Mark Ludwig, director and narrator. Yom HaShoah April 27, 2023. The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Salem State University. Yom HaShoah ceremony, continuing the tradition that founders Sonia Schreiber Weitz and Harriet Wacks began over 30 years ago. With the theme “Our Will to Live,” this year’s event featured a talk by Holocaust music scholar Mark Ludwig. The Salem State Community Chorus performed traditional songs. |
