Bochum - 27.01.11
Holocaust remembrance:
reminder evening for Nazi victims
to a touching Evening came the musical and literary memory of the Holocaust victims on the day of the liberation of Auschwitz in the nearly packed Christ Church.
"Do not clap," asked Rev. Thomas Wessel. On Thursday, the day of the liberation of Auschwitz, he would not qualify the Memory of the Victims of National Socialism with vile hands stirring. Then he welcomed present for survivors of the concentration camp at Christ Church. It should be a rebel evening, with intense lyrics and accompanied by Kroke, which moved with their klezmer music to the public.
Haunting directly
It began with words - Joanna Stanecka and Frank Wicker Man Kosmopol club read of "the other thank you" by Charlotte Delbo. Forcefully and directly led to the almost full church on the subject: the concentration camp. According dramatically when the first title of Kroke: with pounding bass and tortured singing violin. The direct acoustic transferred every knock on the instrument body and the clicking of keys on Jerzy Bawol accordion. The more immediate than was the mood of the music from the stage into the audience. For not long Bawol, Tomasz Kurkuba remained on fiddle and Tomasz Lato on bass at a pace. Quick as lightning broke up the pounding beat in spherical melodies only the next moment the issue back to vary different.
The "Jewish soul" was sung Interrupted
the otherwise almost seamless playing of the trio of the readings. The audible accent Joanna Stanecka let the lyrics sound even harder, which reported on life in concentration camps and the "Jewish soul" sang.
The three musicians took to the moods of the poems and intensified them on a emotional roller coaster. Since Kurkuba sang a high, plaintive voice, and the next moment his voice was replaced by a sleazy dance song. Between them remained Place for long, somewhat effective overloaded violin solos. Rather it was the short interludes, the Kurkubas showed true skill. Especially in the emotional interaction showed the formation of their strengths. Kurkubas voice surprised by intensity - with strategically placed wordless vocals, he enriched the music as an "instrument". Be creative geschnalzter use the famous "Time" was.
"There are good days"
was something strange silence in the pauses. Clearly much it difficult for many in the audience not to applaud. Holten one hand, the poems on the hard pews back, Kroke kidnapped with their sad melodies every listener in the very own world of thoughts. A strange but successful combination, which would certainly have led to outbreaks of enthusiasm would be the subject not so serious.
Last las Stanecka "There are good days" of Kazimierz Dabrowski same time as an introduction to Kroke's last play. Maybe it was the title of the poem - as the last note died away was there was no stopping how to free burst of enthusiasm. A fitting end to a thoroughly enjoyable memorial concert.
Source: The West, 28.01.11
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