"What a wonderful settling of scores with history to hear, in the home of human rights, the voices of those that the Nazis wanted to silence forever", emphasised Gabriella Battaini Dragoni at the opening of the concert "What a Life" by the Ensemble of the London Royal College of Music. The event, organised in the framework of the international colloquy "Music in concentration camps", is part of the Passing on the remembrance of the Holocaust and prevention of crimes against humanity" project of the Council of Europe, accompanied by an exhibition featuring relevant documents and music (photographs of musicians, composers and conductors under National Socialism).

"The Council of Europe was born from the ruins of World War II. It defined its fundamental objectives in response to the totalitarian ideologies of the first half of the twentieth century, with their corollaries of intolerance, division, exclusion, hatred and discrimination", underlined the Deputy Secretary General in her intervention.

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Programme (French only), Festival Voix Etouffées 2013.