Future Memories: Lotoro's journey in search of music written in concentration camps has landed in Germany.

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Francesco Lotoro's latest journey in search of music composed in concentration camps and other places of civilian and military detention around the world between 1933 and 1953, this time set out for Germany. The project "Future Memories: Lotoro's Journey to Save the Lost Music," of which this journey is also part, is promoted by the Fondazione Istituto di Letteratura Musicale Concentrazionaria ETS and supported by the Claims Conference (New York), the Puglia Region, the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe (London), and the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah (Paris). This time Lotoro made the journey alone. The goal was to acquire the musical works written during and after the deportation to Theresienstadt by the Czech-Jewish composer Erich Orlický (pseudonym of Erich Adler). These works are housed at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin (located at Robert-Koch-Platz 10) and require the permission—obtained in due time—of his son Jaroslav Nathan Adler, resident in Antwerp. It was thus finally possible to acquire anastatic copies of the following works by Orlický: Terezínská sonatina pro housle a klavír, Smyčcový kvartet, Smyčcová tria, Vergebliches Warten, Der Weg des Leidens, Theresienstädter Skizzen for string orchestra, Eine Nacht im Ghetto .

In the photos: photographic portrait of Erich Orlický [Erich Adler] and one of his compositions