Alma Rose by Richard Newman
Alma Ros 's tragic story, from her birth and youth in the exalted musical circles of Vienna (her father was leader of the Vienna Philharmonic, her uncle was Gustav Mahler) to her death at Auschwitz, first came to public attention through the 1980 film Playing for Time. As leader of the only women's orchestra in the Nazi camps, by force of her will and spirit, she molded a terrified group of young musicians into an ensemble that became their sole hope of survival. And although Alma herself died of a sudden illness shortly before the liberation of the camps, she saved the lives of some four dozen members of the orchestra. In telling her full story for the first time, Richard Newman and Karen Kirtley honor her and the valiant prisoner-musicians for whom music meant life.
RICHARD JEFFREY NEWMAN, an associate professor at Nassau Community College, New York, is an essayist, poet and translator who has been publishing his work since 1988, when the essay His Sexuality; Her Reproductive Rights appeared in Changing Men magazine. Since then, his essays, poems, and translations have appeared in a wide range of journals, among them Prairie Schooner and Birmingham Poetry Review. He has given talks and led workshops on writing autobiographically about gender, sex, and sexuality. His translation of selections from Saadi's Gulistan, a thirteenth-century masterpiece, was published by Global Scholarly Publications. The Silence of Men is the first book of his own poetry to be published.
| SKU | GOR002912091 |
| ISBN 13 | 9781574670516 |
| ISBN 10 | 1574670514 |
| Title | Alma Rose |
| Author | Richard Newman |
| Condition | Very Good |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Hal Leonard Corporation |
| Year published | 2000-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 407 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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