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Works Summary

Performers

• Erich Parce (Baritone)
• Angela Niederloh ()
• Paul Schoenfield (Piano)
• Morgan Smith (Baritone)
• Mina Miller (Piano)

Conductor

• Gerard Schwarz

Ensemble

• Music of Remembrance

Composers

• Paul Schoenfield (1947 - )
• Gerard Schwarz (1947 - )

Remarks:

American composer and pianist Paul Schoenfield is at the keyboard for two searing, heart-piercing works commissioned by Music of Remembrance. Schoenfield gives voice to the words of two brilliant poets-one a Holocaust survivor, one murdered-and the range of their emotions through rage, bitter humor, tenderness and fragile hope. This first English-language recording of his 'Camp Songs' (a 2003 Pulitzer Prize finalist) joins his newest song cycle 'Ghetto Songs'-transporting listeners from the horrors of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin to life in the KrakOw Ghetto. Gerard Schwarz's 'Rudolf and Jeanette' is a haunting, romantic chamber orchestra work evoking the life and love of the composer's Viennese grandparents, who were killed by the Nazis. Produced by Music of Remembrance, a Seattle-based non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the precious cultural legacy of works created by musicians during the Holocaust, and to commissioning new works in memory of their spiritual resistance.
 

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Notes:

Recording information: Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall, Benaroya Hall, Sea.

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Schoenfield, Paul : Camp Songs, song cycle for mezzo-soprano, baritone, clarinet, violin, cello & bass

• Performers: Erich Parce (Baritone); Angela Niederloh; Paul Schoenfield (Piano)
• Ensemble: Music of Remembrance
• Running Time: 25 min. 4 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 2001

Schoenfield, Paul : Ghetto Songs, for 2 voices & ensemble

• Performers: Angela Niederloh; Morgan Smith (Baritone); Paul Schoenfield (Piano)
• Ensemble: Music of Remembrance
• Running Time: 23 min. 33 sec.
• Written: 2008

Schwarz, Gerard : Rudolf and Jeanette, for ensemble

• Performer: Mina Miller (Piano)
• Conductor: Gerard Schwarz
• Ensemble: Music of Remembrance
• Running Time: 15 min. sec.
• Written: 2007

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