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Musical Analysis:
Terezin was a concentration camp for czhech children
and he set children's poems to music
He was commissioned to write the piece
15 thousand children were in the Terezin concentration
camp, and only 100 children survived to the end of the war
Uses a woman's voice to sing poems because he subconsciously
thought of the mother image, which must have been important to the children
First performed may 22, 1965 by a children's chorus
Waxman said of the children, "A few of the children
had been able to look over the wall, beyond the hell of their imprisonment,
to another life, recalling memories of an earlier world or escaping into
a dream world, an imaginary fairytale paradise."
Divided into 8 poems set to music, mostly melancholy:
- 1 On a Sunny Evening
- 2 Forgotten
- 3 The Little Mouse
- 4 Birdsong
- 5 Now its time
- 6 Concert in the Old School Garret
- 7 The Garden
- 8 Fear
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