| Description |
1 online resource (54 min.) |
| Series |
Classical Music in Video |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed Jul. 25, 2014) |
| Performer |
Alice Sommer Herz, interviewee and performer (piano) |
| Notes |
Spoken portions in English with sections in German |
| In |
Everything Is a Present: Alice Sommer Herz |
| Subject |
Herz-Sommer, Alice, 1903-2014.
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| SUBJECT |
Herz-Sommer, Alice, 1903-2014. fast (OCoLC)fst01660962 |
| Subject |
Women pianists -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- Biography
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Czech Republic
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Women pianists.
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Czech Republic.
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Czech Republic -- Prague.
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Biographies.
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Documentary films.
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Documentary films.
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Documentaires.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Herz-Sommer, Alice, 1903-2014, interviewee (expression), instrumentalist.
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Nupen, Christopher, film director, screenwriter, interviewer (expression)
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Container of (work): Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.
Sonatas, piano, no. 14, op. 27, no. 2, C♯ minor. Selections
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Container of (work): Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828.
Impromptus, piano, D. 935. No. 2. Selections
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Container of (work): Smetana, Bedřich, 1824-1884.
České tance. Selections.
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Allegro Films (London, England), production company, publisher.
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