Thursday 13 November 2014

Prince of Wales at Kindertransport choral premiere ( jewishnews)

The Prince of Wales joined a capacity audience at the Roundhouse for the premiere of a choral work composed in tribute to the Kindertransport.

The heir to the throne met some of those given refuge in Britain before the Shoah before attending the second half of a performance of The Last Train to Tomorrow after personally intervening to accept an invitation from the Association of Jewish Refugees.

Commissioned by the Halle Orchestra, The Last Train to Tomorrow tells the story of the rescue mission through a sequence of ten songs that was composed and conducted by the ... continue reading

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