Simon’s PUSH Speech • 1MEMO_20261001

Simon’s PUSH Speech • 1MEMO_20261001• Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • TakeNode 9090fea3-0bcc-4c73-9eaa-ceb7bee0790e • Simon Gronowski preparing his speech in the lounge of The Northern Hotel in Bexhill on Sea, while waiting for the start of the first premiere performance of Howard Moody’s community opera PUSH that Saturday afternoon the 1st of October 2016 in the nearby De La Warr Pavilion at the Marina in Bexhill-On-Sea, England, UK .

Last performance of PUSH opera • Rye News By Heidi Foster – October 13, 2016 – https://www.ryenews.org.uk/culture/last-performance-push-opera

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PUSH Opera Epilogue 2020 | Westerborkfilm Images #2 | 20230728

PUSH Opera Epilogue 2020 | Westerborkfilm Images #2 | 20230728 | URL https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxsM6Rj_HB0xEh4TksbjhIm4EzY81dc4H0

Images from the Westerborkfilm have been used countless times in documentaries and films about the Second World War. Here images screening in the virtual opera PUSH – based on the story of Simon Gronowski – an 11 year old Jewish boy who was pushed from the train – Transport XX – by his mother on the way to Auschwitz — Video clip https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxsM6Rj_HB0xEh4TksbjhIm4EzY81dc4H0

A virtual performance, during the April 2020 Corona virus lockdown, of the epilogue of the community opera PUSH , entitled : Ma Vie N’est Que Miracles | My life is only miracles – hosted by composer Howard Moody. It premiered on the night of the 19th April 2020, exactly 77 years after three Brussels resistance heroes stopped the Nazi train Transport XX, transporting 1600 Jewish deportees to Auschwitz, and more than 200 prisoners escaped from the train before the German border. Info : michelvanderburg.com/2020/04/19 .

PUSH Opera Epilogue 2020 | Westerborkfilm Images #2 | 20230728 | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | URL https://settela.com/2023/07/28 | TakeNode d78e87e2-589f-437e-b11b-ab666aa7f1af

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Doctor Honoris Causa | Connect the World | 20211119

Doctor Honoris Causa | Connect the World | 20211119 | 1-memo•com | At yesterday’s night at the opera in the Brussels opera house De Munt | La Monnaie , five new honorary doctorates were welcomed to the Vrije Universiteit Brussel community by rector Caroline Pauwels : the American science communicator Ann Druyan, artist William Kentridge, Brussels politician Pierre Kompany and world renowned immune scientists Antoni Ribas and Thierry Boon Falleur. The spotlight was also on the honorary doctors Koenraad Tinel en Simon Gronowski for their extraordinary friendship.
Partners were the Université libre de Bruxelles, Erasmus University College Brussels, Ghent University, the University of the Western Cape of South Africa, the Brussels Parliament, our university hospital UZ Brussel, the VUB Orchestra directed by Jurgen Wayenberg and guest conductor, composer, Dirk Brossé.
Here a short film of the group scene photographed at the closing of the ceremony.

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Applause PUSH Revisited @ IMAGINAIR | 20211003

Applause PUSH Revisited @ IMAGINAIR | 20211003 | Miracles•Media | Applause today at the closing of Howard Moody’s opera “PUSH — revisited” a tribute to Simon Gronowski & Koenraad Tinel.
A reworked version of parts of the PUSH opera by composer, librettist, Howard Moody, three soloists, and amateur singers and musicians from the Chamber music ensemble of La Monnaie, hosted by creative collective IMAGINAIR and set amid the sculptures of Koenraad Tinel’s expo TIDES in Belgium | IMAGINAIR | imaginair•be .

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