Campobasso, Saturday 28 January double appointment at the Savoia Theater with the show "In Auschwitz there was a female orchestra"

Campobasso, Saturday 28 January double appointment at the Savoia Theater with the show “In Auschwitz there was a female orchestra”.

To keep the memory of the Shoah alive in the new generations, the municipal administration of Campobasso, in collaboration with the Walter De Angelis Friends of Music Association, on January 28, at 11.30 am, intended to invite to the theatrical and musical show “ 𝐟𝐞𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐥𝐞" all the students of the third classes of the city's lower secondary schools.

«We will invite the students present to provide us with feedback on the sensations, emotions and feelings that we are sure this representation will arouse in them. – declared the Councilor for Culture, Paula Felix -. Musica which at times underlines the moods of the protagonists and at times represents the musical "requests" made to them by the German officers, he will be able to explain to the kids even what words often cannot say. I personally thank the Artistic Director of the Walter De Angelis Friends of Music Association of Campobasso, Antonella de Angelis, for her commitment and dedication to this initiative».

The play tells of the experience of the French Jewish pianist, composer and singer Fania Fénelon, deported to Auschwitz in January 44, who became part of the only female orchestra that ever existed in all the concentration camps of Germany and the occupied territories . There were 47 of her ladies in the orchestra, as Fania recounted in her diary "In Auschwitz there was an orchestra", written much later, after her liberation. Coming from all over, stuffed into a confined space, an old shack near the railway where the convoys of deportees arrived, the orchestras were forced to undergo exhausting rehearsals to be able to play with dignity, because only in this way would they be spared selection for the chamber gas.