A PUBLIC RADIO MUSIC DOCUMENTARY
Their Music Survives
The Resilience and Revival of Jewish Music from The Holocaust
Listen to this Pulitzer Prize-nominated music documentary by journalist Mat Edelson. Awarded “Top Pick” by Public Radio Exchange’s (PRX) Editors in their “Holocaust Remembrance” and “High Holy Day” programming categories, Their Music Survives is now playing on public radio stations nationwide.
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Documentary
To be a Jewish composer or musician under the Third Reich’s reign of terror meant your next note could be your last. Yet even as the Holocaust’s murderous frenzy exploded, imprisoned composers and musicians penciled their inspirations on scraps of paper, played their songs, and hid their manuscripts, praying that even if they died, their music would survive.
Miraculously, it has.
Their Music Survives discovers conductors, musicians and others worldwide unearthing and performing this lost generation of music for new audiences. After 80 years, the beautiful works and incredible stories of these long-forgotten composers and musicians are finally being heard: Victims who, despite all attempts to strip them of their humanity, created music telling us of their times, their fears, their hopes, and their resistance to a world gone mad.
They may be gone, but their music, their essence, lives on.
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Meet the Jewish composers who gave their lives to keep their music
alive.
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Meet the people rediscovering this lost generation of music and performing it for new audiences worldwide: