Bridge Records' Spiritual Resistance: Music from Theresienstadt features eminent Austrian baritone Wolfgang Holzmair and pianist Russell Ryan in a powerful program of music that survives from composers interned at the Theresienstadt (aka, Terezin) concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. Located within a walled fortress in the northwest of what is now the Czech Republic, Theresienstadt was presented as a model camp to the outside world, an ideal Jewish resettlement where culture was allowed to flourish and living conditions ...
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Bridge Records' Spiritual Resistance: Music from Theresienstadt features eminent Austrian baritone Wolfgang Holzmair and pianist Russell Ryan in a powerful program of music that survives from composers interned at the Theresienstadt (aka, Terezin) concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. Located within a walled fortress in the northwest of what is now the Czech Republic, Theresienstadt was presented as a model camp to the outside world, an ideal Jewish resettlement where culture was allowed to flourish and living conditions were not hard on inmates. If anyone in governments outside of the Axis was fooled by this obvious sham, it has not been mentioned in the literature attending to Theresienstadt; however, the unexpected positive benefit of the cultural initiative taken by the S.S. is that the artifacts -- paintings, poetry, musical compositions, and even one fragmentary film -- have survived to tell the story, even if the people did not. Of the 144,000 persons who entered the gates at Theresienstadt,...
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