Music played in the camps comes alive at the Turin Conservatory

Great, I would say.

Everything that can serve to remember to what extent humans can be criminal and murderous towards others of their species is well done and therefore desirable in the hope that this may help ensure that similar catastrophes are not repeated.

If music does it, it is even better, as music is universal in its expression and thus, understandable and accessible to all.

It is truly chilling to think about the role that music played in the Nazi Regime, in general, and in the concentration camps in particular.

I was reading just recently how Verdi's Requiem had been identified by the musicians of Theresienstadt as their work of rebellion against the hierarchy.

On this subject, Francesco Lotoro has done research work that is unique in the world

http://www.ilmc.it/enciclopedia.html

o I had the chance to hear him live during PianoCity two years ago.

The stories he told regarding the way music was experienced in the lager were incredible: composers who wrote works that lasted even half a day because the perception of time changed in captivity... music written, for lack of anything else, even on toilet paper... He would tell these things while interleaving piano pieces by composers (mostly from Eastern Europe) interned in the lager