For a Look or a Touch • 2007

Libretto by Gene Scheer

Lyrics and texts based on entries from Manfred Lewin’s journal in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC; and on interviews from the film Paragraph 175, directed by Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman, Copyright Reflective Image Inc.

Opera in one act

World Premiere: May 7, 2007
Commissioned by Music of Remembrance (Mina Miller, artistic director)

First Performance: Morgan Smith (Manfred), Julian Patrick (Gad), and instrumentalists from the Seattle Symphony
Benaroya Hall, Seattle

Duration: 35’

Resources

Choral Version
Opera Version
Song Version
Photos
Program Note
Recordings
Scores

1. The Voice
2. Golden Years
3. A Hundred Thousand Years
4. The Story of Joe
5. Silence

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Available as a one act opera with piano; with chamber ensemble (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano); with chorus & chamber ensemble; and as a song cycle with piano or chamber ensemble