The Seattle ensemble Music of Remembrance is dedicated to performing music by composers killed in the Holocaust, as well as works written in commemoration of its victims, and Naxos has begun recording its performances as part of its Milken Archive of American Jewish Music. This release is devoted to three compositions commissioned and premiered by the ensemble between 2004 and 2007. The most substantial is Jake Heggie's For a Look or a Touch, a dramatic scene accompanied by a chamber ensemble, for baritone and actor about ...
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The Seattle ensemble Music of Remembrance is dedicated to performing music by composers killed in the Holocaust, as well as works written in commemoration of its victims, and Naxos has begun recording its performances as part of its Milken Archive of American Jewish Music. This release is devoted to three compositions commissioned and premiered by the ensemble between 2004 and 2007. The most substantial is Jake Heggie's For a Look or a Touch, a dramatic scene accompanied by a chamber ensemble, for baritone and actor about two German gay men, one of whom was killed in the camps and one of whom survived. The ghost of the young man returns to his lover, now an old man. The libretto by Gene Scheer is based on the journal of Manfred Lewin, who died, and also interviews with his lover Gad Beck and other survivors, taken from the film Paragraph 175. The texts sung by Lewin are persuasive -- tender and sweet in their recollection of young love, and chilling in their descriptions of the camps. Beck's narrative...
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