World War II. In the midst of the horror and darkness of the concentration camps, small lights were lit. Small lights of fine tangos and sonatas that arose in the hearts and minds of musicians and composers who had been sent to the camps because they were in disharmony with the Hitler regime. They created music that could not be kept down and away, but which was necessarily scribbled down - and then found and published. 

Pianist Kristine Thorup and journalist Inger Hørup Slot bring the music and its history to life under the heading 'The music lives on'.

Together, the two deliver a unique concert lecture of approx. hour and a half, where Kristine Thorup plays works by, among others, Josef Kropinski, Charles Abeles and Viktor Ullmann. The music ranges from bright, cheerful folk tunes to compositions with a newer tonal language. Along the way, Inger Hørup Slot talks about the composers and their further fate.   

These are stories and melodies that have been close to being forgotten, but just in these years are being rediscovered in Europe and the USA. 

About Inger Hørup Slot and Kristine Thorup
Inger Hørup Slot graduated from Denmark's Journalist College in 2001 and works every day as a cultural mediator and networker at BLIK - Græsted Library.

Kristine Thorup debuted in 2007 in the Odd Fellow Palæet with fine reviews and has since had an extensive career as a soloist, chamber musician and in regular collaboration with Kgl. Chamber singer Stig Fogh Andersen.

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