For a Look or a Touch / Song • 2011

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.

Song
Baritone & Piano or Chamber Ensemble

World Premiere: May 14, 2013
Commissioned by Music of Remembrance

First Performance: baritone Morgan Smith and instrumentalists from the Seattle Symphony
Benaroya Hall, Seattle

Duration: 20’

 

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


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

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