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    Explore "terezin" with insightful episodes like "Women of Terezin", "Women of Terezin - Preview Episode", "VLEEL 251 Hélios Azoulay, Pour Tommy, Juste avant d'éteindre, Editions du rocher", "Cinema & Spettacoli Magazine - 8/2/2023" and "Glance at Culture - Terezín Music Foundation: Mark Ludwig on his new book Our Will To Live, Social Justice and the Holocaust" from podcasts like ""People Hidden In History", "People Hidden In History", "VLEEL - Varions Les Éditions En Live", "Cinema & Spettacoli Magazine" and "Warfare of Art & Law Podcast"" and more!

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    Women of Terezin

    Women of Terezin

    This is a follow-up to the Viktor Ullman episode, recorded in August 2022(link at end). Again - I am fortunate to interview Mark Ludwig (Director of the Terezin Music Foundation) and learn about the women at Terezin and their role in the music and the arts at this concentration camp. Though Terezín’s male composers — Gideon Klein, Viktor Ullmann, Hans Krása and others — are well known, many outstandingly talented women were at the epicenter of the camp’s cultural community as well. 

     In this episdoe we will learn about the life and artistry of poet and composer Ilse Weber and about how she and women like Regina Jonas, who was the first ordained woman rabbi, and Bauhaus artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis helped their fellow prisoners transcend the horrors of Terezín. There were also the singers, pianists, and educators who comforted and enriched life within the walls of this concentration camp. Two images of the artwork from the children in Terezin will be posted at the podcast website, in the Viktor Ullman page (link).

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    Terezin Music Foundation - Link

    Links to Vicktor Ullman podcast episode (Aug 2022):
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    Women of Terezin - Preview Episode

    Women of Terezin - Preview Episode

    Welcome to the People Hidden in History Podcast series, You will hear a brief preview of an upcoming podcast episode – to be recorded and released later this fall. 

    This is to be a follow-up episode from August 2022, which was an interview with Mark Ludwig, Director of the Terezin Music Foundation. The episode focused on Viktor Ullman, a composer and music critic, who was a prisoner at the Terezin concentration camp. 

    However, this upcoming episode will focus on the many talented women at Terezin (pianists, composers, educators). These women comforted and enriched the life within the walls of this concentration camp. The Robert Schumann piano piece you hear at the beginning and end, was known to have been played by women pianists at Terezin.  

    To highlight these women, the Terezin Music Foundation – is excited to give them their due on the great stage of Symphony Hall in Boston at their next Gala Event on November 19th (details here). 

     Do listen to the first podcast (link here), that will give a better understanding of life at Terezin, and how those living there were under constant threat of deportation to Auschwitz but also how music still could enrich their spirits. 

    VLEEL 251 Hélios Azoulay, Pour Tommy, Juste avant d'éteindre, Editions du rocher

    VLEEL 251 Hélios Azoulay, Pour Tommy, Juste avant d'éteindre, Editions du rocher

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    📖 LES LIVRES

    JUSTE AVANT D’ÉTEINDRE

    « Si quelqu’un m’a vu ici, il racontera peut-être un homme en train de courir après une pauvre feuille de papier que le vent s’amuse à exiler. Je les ramasse toutes. Je les déchire minutieusement, et j’en garde un petit fragment. Un lambeau étroit comme une île, où je peux écrire quelques mots.
    Ce que je vois, ce que j’ai devant moi, ce que mes yeux attrapent, ce qu’il me reste entre les dents. Des petites phrases.
    J’écris debout.
    Il n’y a pas de détails, il n’y a que des preuves. J’en ai les poches pleines. »
    Dans un roman à l’écriture fulgurante, Hélios Azoulay raconte le destin d’un musicien juif qui, dans l’impossibilité de composer, se réfugie dans l’écriture pour résister à l’horreur de la déportation. En mêlant la pudeur au burlesque, le délire au souvenir, l’effrayante réalité à une poésie qui refuse d’arrondir les angles, l’auteur tisse la vie d’un artiste trimballé par l’Histoire, mais qui ne renoncera jamais à rester un homme.

    Date de parution : 25 aout 2021, Nombres de pages : 140

    POUR TOMMY

    Hélios Azoulay (Auteur) & Bedrich Fritta (Auteur)

    Terezín, 22 janvier 1944. Tommy a trois ans.
    Pour son anniversaire, son père, le peintre Bedrich Fritt a, lui offre un livre qu’il a lui-même dessiné. Une histoire rien que pour lui. 52 petites aquarelles sublimes de beauté, de délicatesse et d’humour. Et il y a tant de tendresse, tant de poésie dans cet ultime cadeau d’un père à son fils que cela semble inconcevable qu’il ait pu voir le jour dans un camp, des mains d’un homme cerné comme tous les siens par la terreur et la mort.
    Le père mourut déporté à Auschwitz. L’enfant survécut.
    Dialoguant à travers le temps, l’écrivain Hélios Azoulay raconte l’histoire de Tommy, de son livre, de cet héritage. Des pages d’une profondeur saisissante, dont on ressort étourdi et bouleversé.
    Bedrich Fritta est né en Bohême, à Višnová, en 1906. De son vrai nom Fritz Taussig, il a été graphiste et caricaturiste à Prague. Déporté à Theresienstadt en 1941, il dirige le Bureau de dessin du Département technique. En juillet 1944, il est arrêté pour « propagande mensongère». Torturé, il est envoyé à Auschwitz où il meurt le 4 novembre 1944. Ses dessins clandestins et son livre Pour Tommy sont parmi les plus grands chefs-d’oeuvre à être revenus des camps.

    Date de parution : 18 Janvier 2023, Nombres de pages : 160

    📖 L’AUTEUR

    Hélios Azoulay est compositeur, clarinettiste, écrivain, comédien. Artiste insaisissable, il se déploie à travers une oeuvre d’une extraordinaire liberté. Parmi sa production littéraire, citons L’enfer a aussi son orchestre, sur les musiques composées dans les camps dont il est devenu l’interprète de référence avec l’Ensemble de Musique Incidentale qu’il dirige. Ses romans, Moi aussi j’ai vécu (Flammarion) et Juste avant d’éteindre (Le Rocher), ont tous deux été adaptés au théâtre.

    Glance at Culture - Terezín Music Foundation: Mark Ludwig on his new book Our Will To Live, Social Justice and the Holocaust

    Glance at Culture - Terezín Music Foundation: Mark Ludwig on his new book Our Will To Live, Social Justice and the Holocaust

    To learn more, please visit the websites of Terezín Music Foundation and its project Our Will to Live.

    SHOW NOTES:
    00:02:45 Foundation of Terezín Music Foundation

    00:06:30 Our Will To Live

    00:08:30 Ullmann as guide through Terezin’s cultural community 

    00:09:35 Otto Weininger

    00:12:20 Ullmann’s essays on Sigmund Schul included in Our Will To Live

    00:13:30 Ullmann’s critiques of Carman and Verdi’s Requiem

    00:14:45 Viktor Frankl

    00:18:40 Council of Elders member Karel Herman

    00:22:50 smuggling musical instruments

    00:24:55 Ullmann’s critique of performance by Karel Švenk

    00:26:05 knowledge of environment and history of creators enriches understanding of their work

    00:26:10 George Horner

    00:29:15 Yo-Yo Ma’s work with TMF

    00:30:45 Yo-Yo Ma and George Horner’s performance at Boston’s Symphony Hall

    00:32:45 Ludwig’s performance of Klein’s Lullabye for Dalai Lama at US Capital and in Sarajevo after seige

    00:33:20 Our Will To Live as a work of historical justice

    00:33:50 Primo Levy’s The Drowned and The Saved

    00:35:00 How tracks for Our Will To Live were choosen

    00:35:40 Karel Berman's performance of “A Sleepless Night” from Four Songs on Chinese poetry

    00:36:00 cabaret works by Karel Svenk

    00:37:15 Tracks of the month by OWTL

    00:38:15 TMF’s ‘Finding A Voice’ program curriculum

    00:39:55 enabling individuals to find their voice 

    00:40:50 social justice and the voice of society

    00:41:20 voices of Ullmann, Hans Krása,  Gideon Klein

    00:42:05 Friedl Dicker-Brandeis 

    00:44:50 Pavel Haas’ “A Sleepless Night” from Four Songs on Chinese Poetry

    00:46:20 Gideon Klein’s String Trio, Second movement

    00:46:55 Ullmann’s Third String Quartet

    00:47:40 Hans Krása’s children's opera Brundibar 

    00:48:10 Krása’s Passacaglia and Fugue for String Trio 

    00:48:50 Picasso’s Guernica

    00:49:30 Ullmann’s Don Quixote Overture 

    00:51:10 TMF’s legacy

    00:55:40  Track 27 Viktor Ullmann, Third String Quartet [13:38] (Terezín, 1943)
    performed by Hawthorne String Quartet

    01:09:45 Track 11 Gideon Klein, String Trio, Movement II — Theme and Variations [07:17] (Terezín, 1944), performed by Ronan Lefkowitz, violin; Mark Ludwig, viola; Sato Knudsen, cello

    01:17:45 Track 12 Gideon Klein, String Trio, Movement III — Molto Vivace [03:04] (Terezín, 1944) performed by Ronan Lefkowitz, violin; Mark Ludwig, viola; Sato Knudsen, cello

    01:21:05 Track 16 Pavel Haas, Four Songs on Chinese Poetry (for Karel Berman) “A Sleepless Night” (Han Yu [14:11] (Terezín, 1944) performed by Karel Berman, baritone, and Přemsyl Charnát, piano, November 1991 Czech Radio broadcast of a concert featuring Terezín composers in the Jewish Town Hall, Prague.

    01:25:10 Track 29 Karel Švenk, “Why Does the Black Man Sit at the Back of the Car?” [01:16] (Terezín, 1943) Arrangement by David L. Post; performed by Thomas Martin, clarinet, and Hawthorne String Quartet

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