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Music of Remembrance

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If one is misled by their superficial cheerfulness or lamentation, it is likely impossible to discern the true nature of these works.These two song cycles are heart-wrenching in their sorrow. Both are based on texts that interweave the passions, fragile hopes, and faint, hard-won humor of those who survived Nazi persecution. “Camp Song,” which had its world premiere in English on November 8, 2004, was nominated for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. The music itself is simple and ironic, somewhat reminiscent of Mahlers *The Miraculous Horn of the Child*. At first listen, one might get the impression that brightness predominates, but as the saying goes, When you are truly sad, you cannot even shed tearsevery piece is imbued with an almost obsessive thirst for life. Songs of the Ghetto, which had its world premiere on May 12, 2008, is a song cycle based on poems by the Jewish musician and poet Mord