Live Event: White Rose - Voices of the German Resistance

TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big
Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one
of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre
for the Humanities. Join Dr Alex Lloyd (Fellow by Special Election
in German, St Edmund Hall, Oxford) and Tom Herring (Artistic
Director of SANSARA) to discuss White Rose - Voices of the German
Resistance. In 1943 five students and a professor at the University
of Munich were executed. They had been part of the White Rose, a
group that secretly wrote and distributed pamphlets calling on
Germans to resist Hitler. The White Rose Project, a research and
outreach initiative led by Dr Alex Lloyd at the University of
Oxford, works to bring the story of this incredible group to an
English-speaking audience. White Rose - Voices of the German
Resistance is a collaboration between the White Rose Project and
SANSARA, an award-winning vocal ensemble led by Artistic Director
Tom Herring. This project combines the two performance forces of
the spoken word and a cappella choral music to tell this remarkable
story. Music is juxtaposed with excerpts from the resistance
group’s letters, diaries and pamphlets. The majority of these texts
are only now being translated into English by students at Oxford.
The music gives a background to the texts and speaks in dialogue
with them, creating resonances, dissonances, and a chance for
reflection. In this live event, Alex and Tom discuss their work
together with short excerpts from their concert on 22 February
2020, SANSARA’s last live performance before lockdown. This short
film gives a brief introduction to the project
https://youtu.be/76vhQmHQR1o