“Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust” to Premiere in Concert at Kennedy Center | Trailer

Monday, Jan 05, 2026

“Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust” to Premiere in Concert at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Music Composed in Dignity, Played in Defiance

On January 27, 2026—International Holocaust Remembrance Day—the Counter Extremism Project and ARCHER at House 88 will bring to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts* in Washington, D.C. a landmark concert of works composed in the ghettos and death camps more than eighty years ago.

https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/explore-by-genre/classical-music/2025-2026/enduring-music/

*This performance is an external rental presented in coordination with the Kennedy Center Campus Rentals Office and is not produced by the Kennedy Center.”

Location: Eisenhower Theater

Tuesday January 27, 2026 7:30p.m.

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Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.