STORIES 250

Students Give Voice to Music Played at Auschwitz

Oriol Sans conducts the Contemporary Directions Ensemble on Nov. 30, 2018 in Hankinson Hall at the University of Michigan. (Photo: RET)

Editor’s Note: In 2018, a student orchestra at the University of Michigan’s School of Music brought to life a rare manuscript that Patricia Hall, Ph.D., professor of music theory, found during her research at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland. Musicians who were prisoners at Auschwitz during World War II played the arrangement. It had…

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