) here's the link to the 60minutes feature: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/ ... 8458.shtml
HANS KRÁSA’S BRUNDIBÁR ON CBS’s 60 MINUTES
News Magazine Show Tells Story of Opera Performed in Nazi Concentration Camp at Terezín
Recording, with English Libretto by Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner,
Now Available on Naxos
CBS’s 60 Minutes included a story on Sunday, February 25th about Hans Krása’s Brundibár, an opera that the composer performed with child inmates in the Nazi concentration camp at Terezín.
The opera is now available on Naxos–featuring an English libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner–produced by the Seattle-based organization Music of Remembrance and led by Gerard Schwarz.
Krása had originally completed Brundibár in 1938 in Prague. As a Jew, he was imprisoned in Terezín after the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia, where he revised the score and mounted a production in 1943.
Built around the themes of good versus evil and the value of courage, Brundibár provided some measure of inspiration for Terezín inmates. In a sick irony, however, the Nazis also found a way to use Krása’s production as a propaganda tool to demonstrate their “fair treatment” of the Jewish population in Czechoslovakia.
Hans KRÁSA: Brundibár
An opera for children; English libretto by Tony Kushner
Music of Remembrance, Gerard Schwarz
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