Dear all! I cannot believe it - but thanks to your incredible generosity and enthusiasm we made our full goal with three more spare weeks. A HUGE thank you for your support and the beautiful words, that touched me. I hope to see you either at the concert or in some other way and be able to thank you in one way or another.

As we have 3 more weeks to go, it would be wonderful to make a high-quality life stream for Frank Grunwald, his family, and also for all of you, who cannot come to our concert on the 29th of April. In this way, it is possible for a lot more audience to join us for this special event just before Remembrance Day.

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'INTO ETERNITY’ - a tribute to Vilma Grunwald

Please help us to finalise the album and to present this unique project live around National Remembrance Day - Saturday 29th of April 2023 / 20.15h

Album release on TRPTK

The performance and presentation of the album:
Saturday, on the 29th of April 2023 at the Posthoornkerk, Amsterdam - just before Remembrance Day

Into Eternity is based on the farewell letter of Vilma Grunwald, which she wrote moments before her death in Auschwitz. The project is a tribute to her to commemorate the courage and love she expressed.
INTO ETERNITY is an evening-filling concert with Bella Adamova (contra alto), Maya Fridman (cello, voice), Belinfante Quartet, Michael Hesselink (clarinet), Jacobus Thiele (percussion) & Marion von Tilzer (composition, & piano). This program is part of the series ‘Meetings with Remarkable Women’
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Your donations help us:
• Cover extra costs of the cd production
• Pay the ensemble of nine musicians for the concert/album release with on April 29th
• Renting the Church
* Making a film of the concert

‘Into Eternity’ is a story of unimaginable sadness, yet at the same time, it portrays the incredible human capacity of love, courage, and resiliency, told through the eyes of a woman against the backdrop of the Holocaust - one of the most gruesome moments in human history. In the letter to her husband, Vilma shines a light on the core of accepting circumstance without losing the belief in life's beauty, hope in its goodness and trusting wholeheartedly that love carries us through and beyond the end.

Frank Grunwald (1932), Vilma’s surviving son about the project ‘INTO ETERNITY:
‘...It is so exciting to hear about the completion of the musical composition inspired by my mother’s letter. One of my concerns has always been that my mother will be forgotten, but now - with her letter in the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and the musical performances composed on her behalf - those concerns are gone.’

https://perspectives.ushmm.org/item/letter-from-vilma-grunwald-to-kurt-grunwald

About
Award-winning composer/pianist Marion von Tilzer is an intriguing musician, in particular, due to her talent for merging completely different styles and art genres in a surprising and original way. Her synthesis of Indian classical music with contemporary western music has led to collaborations with musicians, choreographers and filmmakers from all over the world, as a composer and performer with her own groups. Her projects have been labelled stunning, fascinating and accessible at the same time. Her current project is a series of cross-cultural interdisciplinary art projects is called ‘Meetings with Remarkable Women – music inspired by women’s lives’. Her album with cellist/vocalist Maya Fridman ‘Ten Songs of Change’ with Marion’s music and poetry from the Tang Dynasty inspired by the I Ching, the book of Changes. With this project they have an ongoing tour ‘Ten Songs of Change in Sacred Spaces” which started off in July 2021 in The Netherlands.

In 2012 she won the first prize of the Donemus Composition Competition. Her piece "Die Verlassene Stadt" an orchestral work was commissioned by the VU kamerorkest and is dedicated to the victims of the Chernobyl disaster. Marion was commissioned to write two pieces for the Radio Symphony Orchestra of the Westdeutsche Rundfunk in Cologne, Germany. One of pieces was nominated for the Theodore Front Prize. Other commissions include a composition for the city of Amsterdam, which was premiered in the renowned Concertgebouw Hall. (www.marionvontilzer.com - www.muzican.nl)

For more information about us please click:
http://www.marionvontilzer.com/
https://mayafridman.com/
https://adamovabella.com/
https://www.belinfantequartet.com
https://www.instagram.com/jacobusthiele/
https://muziekschoolwaterland.nl/michael-hesselink/

Film made by Peter Sieben https://petersieben.com/
Musicvideo made by Michal Grycko www.gryckovisuals.com

The essence of ‘Meetings with Remarkable Women is to inspire peace in us. As music has the power to reach us very deeply, a live concert can become a space of peace for us.

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Help ons het concert en album INTO ETERNITY mogelijk te maken met het bijzondere verhaal van Vilma Grunwald. Het programma vind plaats in aanloop van Dodenherdenking.

Album release op TRPTK

De voorstelling & presentatie van het album is op zaterdag 29th of April 2023, 20.15h in de Posthoornkerk, Amsterdam.

Ik kan het niet geloven, maar dank jullie ongelofelijke vrijgevige ondersteuning hebben we ons doel nu al bereikt. Heel veel dank voor jullie aanmoedigende woorden en steun. We gaan nu voor een extra doel, en verhogen het bedrag, omdat we heel graag een high-quality live-stream willen maken van het concert voor Frank Grunwald en zijn familie en voor alle die het concert graag bij willen wonen maar niet naar Amsterdam kunnen komen.

Into Eternity is een eerbetoon aan Vilma Grunwald gebaseerd op de laatste brief aan haar echtgenoot die zij schreef kort voor haar dood in Auschwitz. Het is een avondvullende muziekvoorstelling, waaraan meewerken contra alto Bella Adamova, celliste Maya Fridman, het Belinfante Quartet, klarinetist Michael Hesselink, percusionist Jacobus Thiele en pianiste/componiste Marion von Tilzer.

Waarvoor we uw donatie nodig hebben is:
Nog bijkomende kosten van cd productie te dekken
het concert en feestelijke CD presentatie met ons negen musici op 29 April
de zaalhuur.

Voor meer informatie over ons:
http://www.marionvontilzer.com/
https://mayafridman.com/
https://adamovabella.com/
https://www.belinfantequartet.com
https://www.instagram.com/jacobusthiele/
https://muziekschoolwaterland.nl/michael-hesselink/

Film made by Peter Sieben https://petersieben.com/
Musicvideo made by Michal Grycko www.gryckovisuals.com

Alvast heel veel dank voor uw donatie!