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Everything is a present : Alice Sommer Herz, sage, saint, maven /

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Christopher Nupen's film portrays Alice Sommer Herz, a woman with the true gift of forgiveness. A Nazi concentration camp prisoner for two years with her six-year-old son, suffering deaths of her mother and her husband in the camp, she also remembers playing more than 100 concerts in the camp a...

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Other Authors: Herz-Sommer, Alice, 1903-2014 (Instrumentalist, Performer, interviewee (expression),), Nupen, Christopher (Screenwriter, Director, Interviewer, interviewer (expression)), Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827, Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828, Smetana, Bedřich, 1824-1884
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:Spoken portions in English with sections in German.
Published: Guildford, England : Allegro Films, 2009.
Series:Classical Music in Video
Subjects:
Herz-Sommer, Alice, > 1903-2014.
Women pianists > Czech Republic > Prague > Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Czech Republic.
Femmes pianistes > République tchèque > Prague > Biographies.
Holocauste, 1939-1945 > République tchèque.
Women pianists.
Czech Republic.
Czech Republic > Prague.
1939-1945
Streaming videos.
Biographies.
Documentary films.
Documentaires.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:Christopher Nupen's film portrays Alice Sommer Herz, a woman with the true gift of forgiveness. A Nazi concentration camp prisoner for two years with her six-year-old son, suffering deaths of her mother and her husband in the camp, she also remembers playing more than 100 concerts in the camp and likens the experience, both for the performers and for the listeners, to being close to the divine. Alice is in no doubt that music saved her sanity as well as her life and the lives of hundreds of others. She plays extracts from Impromptu no. 2, op. 142 : D 935 / Schubert ; Czech dance / Smetana ; Sonata no. 14 in C-sharp minor, op. 27 no. 2 / Beethoven.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed Jul. 25, 2014).
Physical Description:1 online resource (54 min.).
Playing Time:00:53:07