Music of Remembrance Featured in Chronicle of Philanthropy • May 2025
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MOR was featured in June 2025 issue of Chronicle of Philanthropy
For more than a quarter-century, Music of Remembrance has built a reputation as the creative catalyst for testimonies for tomorrow – persuasive works that explore the consequences of intolerance. At its forming, MOR sought to rescue Holocaust-era composers’ music from undeserved obscurity. But as the Chicago Tribune writes, “These days, MOR’s purview is broader. Its productions urge audiences to apply lessons learned from the Holocaust – or, as is too often the case, ignored – to other human rights catastrophes.”
The performing arts organization earned a spot in the Chronicle of Philanthropy for their commitment to social justice through art, and coverage of their album release of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Before It All Goes Dark was featured in outlets around the world, amid the onslaught of NEA funding cuts for projects such as MOR’s tour of Tom Cipullo and David Mason’s After Life.
Chronicle of Philanthropy: A Nonprofit That Uses Music to Power Memory and Social Justice
Financial Times: Heggie’s opera about Nazi-looted art gets its first recording
Santa Fe New Mexican: ‘Before It All Goes Dark’ Shines an Operatic Light on Nazi-Looted Art
Airmail: Nazi Loot In Limbo
The Rehearsal Studio: MOR to expand opera for 10th anniversary
Cascade PBS: ArtSEA Culture Roundup
Classical KING Radio: Northwest Focus Concert Calendar
OperaWire: Every Opera Company that Has Lost NEA Grants Under New Trump Rule Changes
Real Change News: Local arts orgs are losing federal funding in face of new “priorities”