Pannon Philharmonic

The concert, beginning at 7-00pm, is starting with a Holocaust victim Mihály Nádor’s Violin Concerto, which had been buried for decades and was found recently; after the Carnegie Hall, New york and the Music Academy in Budapest, the Pécs audience can hear it, featuring the violin virtuoso   Barnabás Kelemen.                                   

In the focus of the evening is the premiere of János Vajda’s music work titled À la recherche..., which was inspired by a part of Miklós Radnóti’s journal and his last poems. The composer wrote his symphonic poem for narrator and orchestra expressly for this occasion, commissioned by the Pannon Philharmonic. The work is featuring Zoltán Rátóti as the narrator. 
The programme of the memorial concert is going to be closed by a German composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s Symphony No.1, which evokes the memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
The concert, within the framework of the Holocaust Memorial Year, is followed by an all-day-long programme series.  The orchestra summons the memory of the poet with a tragic fate with exhibitions, literary discussions, violin accompanied reading, and a movie in the rooms of the Kodály Centre.

Forced March - film

At 1.30pm in the concert hall, you can watch Rick King’s rarely played movie, which tells the last days of Miklós Radnóti from the point of view of a young American.

"Groping for line ander line…”

Literary readings and panel discussion

As part of the Radnóti Memorial Day, at 3.30pm,  Zsófia Szilágyi, Róbert Milbacher, and Tamás Kisantal literature historians talk in for lay people understandable form with Gábor Murányi, journalist of HVG about that what connection has/might have Radnóti’s poetry  to the Holocaust literature. During the podium discussion, there will be readings of Radnóti’s poems and extracts from his wife Fanni Gyarmati’s journal; the readings will be accompanied by Balázs Bujtor’s violin playing.
On the Memorial Day, you can continuously read and listen to Radnóti’s poems. About the poet’s fate, the documents of his life and photos tell you more.

Used Stones - Photo Exhibition
From November 9 at the Kodály Centre, one can see photos of Bernadett Alpern the exhibition Used Stones, which is about synagogue buildings that after the deportation of Jews lost their members, became empty, and for today got completely desacralized, , lost or changed function, and living on as everyday buildings, so you can view them as mementoes of the Holocaust.
The show starts with an opening ceremony at 5.30pm. It will be opened by the Undersecretary of State for Culture Péter Hoppál as its patron and by photo historian Béla Albertini.

The accompanying afternoon programmes of the Memorial Day can be visited after buying a registration ticket for HUF 500, which in case of purchasing a full-price ticket for the orchestra’s concert on 22 January 2015, can be used as a voucher. The registration ticket includes access to all accompanying programmes.

With the tickets purchased for the evening concert, one can visit all the programmes for free.