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The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz by Anne Sebba review – playing for their lives

W hen 13-year-old Pearl Pufeles disembarked from the cattle car at Auschwitz in March 1944, she was surprised to hear the strains of Dvořák and Smetana wafting towards her. “Gosh, ” thought the Czecho...

IAN 3/20/25, Music as Healing Chorus: A Cappella Songs of Spring

Sometimes, You are quiet as a Trillium. . . You speak Violets The heavens are ever blue and the Earth shall stand sure, and blossom in the spring. But you O man, what long life have you? Not a hundred...

IAN 3/20/25, Music as Healing Chorus: A Cappella Songs of Spring

Sometimes, You are quiet as a Trillium. . . You speak Violets The heavens are ever blue and the Earth shall stand sure, and blossom in the spring. But you O man, what long life have you? Not a hundred...

MSO Season Opening Gala: Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony

Soprano Eleanor Lyons and mezzo-soprano Catriona Morison join the MSO Chorus and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in Gustav Mahler’s Second Symphony. Given that the traditionalist Johannes Brahms describe...

SSO: Donald Runnicles conducts Mahler's Fourth Symphony

Conductor Sir Donald Runnicles is highly regarded throughout the world for his interpretation of the music of Mahler. His lifelong passion for Mahler began from the very first time he heard it as a young usher in an Edinburgh concert hall. Runnicles describes Mahler's Fourth Symphony as one of innocence and joy, and this culminates in the final movement where soprano Ying Fang sings of a child's imagining of heaven as a place of abundant food. Im Sommerwind is a student work by Webern composed b...

Dallas Symphony Orchestra celebrates 125 years with 2025-26 season

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra has been making music for 125 years. To celebrate its quasquicentennial, the orchestra’s 2025-26 season highlights significant moments, artists and music from the orchest...

From tower tops, cathedrals, domes and palaces, the rich peals of silver bells will ring in a merry Christmas and a happy New Year to all mankind. Mankind in return is grateful for the ringing of the ...

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Pope Benedict Warned Pope Francis Twelve Years Ago

Pope Benedict Warned Pope Francis Twelve Years Ago On January 14, 2025 Random House released Hope , an autobiography of Pope Francis. The fact that he decided to go with one of the most well known pub...

Auschwitz's incredible untold story – the orchestra so talented it saved their lives

The words “music” and “Auschwitz” clash like a pair of giant brass cymbals. What role could the former, which soothes the soul and moves the spirit, possibly have in one of the most savage and brutal killing machines ever devised in history? That is ...