"Trip of the memory", it’s the title of the commemorating trip to remember those who shall never be forgotten, in whose steps will walk also the soprano singer Hersi Matmuja , who represented Albania in Eurovision Song Contest in May 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Hersi Matmuja’s who has has been studying for the past 5 years at the prestigious Conservatory of Music Santa Cecilia of Rome was selected ”because it was right voice”- said the music headmaster of the Conservatory , Alfredo Santoloci, who is the initiator for this concert and has taken care for the arrangement the musical pieces.
This event will be organized by the Italian Government with the cooperation of the Mayor of Rome, which will also be one of the participant on this journey for the Roman students in order to look closely, to the physical evidence left by the Holocaust.
This year, things have been thought a little differently. 200 students from Rome will leave for Poland from 19 to 21 October, as a reminder for sending the Italian Jewish population to Auschwitz.
What’s special about this time, is that amongst them there will also be a delegation of students from the Conservatory of Music, Santa Cecilia in Rome, where Hersi entered and won the scholarship being ranked first in the admissions competition 5 years ago.
Santa Cecilia Conservatory musicians will give a concert, which will play the most significant parts of poet and composer Ilse Webber who lived, created poetry and died in Auschwitz. In this concert in honouring the composer and poet Ilse Webber, the voice of Hersi Matmuja, will be accompanied by music quartet named Cecilia Chamber Group of Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome.
"Concert to the memory" , will contain some of the most famous artworks such as: "Auschwitz Lied", "Wiegala", "Dobry Den", "Theresienstadt", "Und der regenrinnt", "Emigrantenlied" and "Ugolebavka".
These pieces are composed to accompany the sounds, all the pain and suffering of people in the notorious camp of Auschwitz and are named as some of the most significant evidence of the Holocaust.
Ilse Weber masterpieces will be followed by Cecilia Chamber Group instrumentalists and singer sung by soprano all Matmuja Hersi, who spoke recently about this event on the tv show TG2 Insieme of the Italian National TV Broadcaster channel RAI DUE.