Music of Another World (Jewish Lives)
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (719 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0810118025 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 138 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A violinist, composer and conductor in the Auschwitz II orchestra, Laks explains that as camp routine annihilated the ranks of the orchestra--who did double duty as musicians and hard-labor crews--he had to implement a special kind of orchestration, "which makes it possible for any group to perform any work, regardless of the presence or absence of one or even a few musicians." The author drolly denies that the orchestra performed as runaway prisoners were hanged: "I am not absolving the orchestra, I am absolving the Germans, who love music too much to use it for such prosaic purposes." He muses on a Nazi whose forbidden passion for Jewish music caused him to be sent to the front, on clandestine camp celebrations where
His story is a testament to the human spirit and to music itself, the beauty of which Laks and others honored even as the lives of so many were destroyed.. Compassionate yet detached, ironic yet pitilessly honest, Szymon Laks, the kapellmeister of the Auschwitz orchestra, presents a disturbing description of a phenomenon seldom mentioned in the literature of the Holocaust: the presence of music among the crematoria
Kisiel is the translator of Jerzy Szacki's Liberalism after Communism.. He died in Paris in 1983.Chester A. Szymon Laks was born in Warsaw in 1901 and studied mathematics, musical composition, and conducting before leave Poland in 1925. He was deported in 1941 and sent to Auschwitz in 1942, where he adapted the three Warsaw polonaises reproduced in this volu
Music of Another World: Purchased at Amazon.com dep When the author of Music of Another World tried to first publish his book, one publisher turned it down because he said it was too sympathetic to the Nazis. After reading the book I can understand why. Music of Another World is about the authors time in Auschwitz as a member of t. I found this book a very personal, humble and I found this book a very personal, humble and interesting description of an unusual Holocaust camp experience. I found it utterly moving.