Krasa - Brundibár: An Opera for Children, Overture for Small Orchestra / Lori Laitman - I Never Saw Another Butterfly | Naxos 8570119

Krasa - Brundibár: An Opera for Children, Overture for Small Orchestra / Lori Laitman - I Never Saw Another Butterfly

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8570119

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 2nd April 2007

Contents

Artists

Maureen Mckay (soprano)
Laura Deluca (clarinet)
Craig Sheppard (piano)
Music of Remembrance
Northwest Boychoir

Conductor

Gerard Schwarz

Works

Krasa, Hans

Brundibar (Bumble-bee)
Overture for Small Orchestra

Laitman, Lori

I Never Saw Another Butterfly

Artists

Maureen Mckay (soprano)
Laura Deluca (clarinet)
Craig Sheppard (piano)
Music of Remembrance
Northwest Boychoir

Conductor

Gerard Schwarz

About

Brundibár is part of an inspiring human legacy. Hans Krása’s beautiful children’s opera, performed 55 times at the Terezín concentration camp, stands as a memorial to its original performers, the child inmates of Terezín. 
 
Tony Kushner’s acclaimed new English libretto, which receives its world premičre recording here, brings a modern vibrancy to Brundibár’s story about the triumph of good over evil, and the power of friendship to change the world. 
 
Contemporary American composer Lori Laitman’s powerful song cycle I Never Saw Another Butterfly captures the voices of six extraordinary poems by Terezín’s child prisoners. 
 
Krása’s and Laitman’s works are a deep tribute to the human spirit. They honor the lives and legacy of those remarkable persons – especially children – whose creative work was an expression of spiritual resistance to tyranny. 
 
Produced by Music of Remembrance, a Seattle-based non-profit organization dedicated to remembering Holocaust musicians through their art.

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