Music of Remembrance

(This is from November.) Aaron is now in the Performing Choir level of the boychoir, which means he has a significant and rewarding performance schedule. His first concert at this level was for the Music of Remembrance (https://www.musicofremembrance.org/), which is a Seattle-based program to remember the Holocaust through music. The boychoir performed several Yiddish folk songs.

Attendees at the Music of Remembrance concert include many elderly people, some in walkers or with oxygen tanks. Several expressed how moved and grateful they were to hear Yiddish music performed so well. Aaron is glad to be able to offer them this music. He always felt very special about the free concerts he did at assisted living facilities when he was in a lower level of the choir: those people can’t necessarily go out to hear music, so it is significant to be able to bring it to them. Performing with Music of Remembrance is another way to give music to elders who might not hear it otherwise.

The performances are at Benaroya Hall, meaning that for the first time, Aaron used the Artist’s Entrance as a professional performer. (He's been there before, but for a much lower-stakes show.)