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Everything is a present : Alice Sommer Herz, sage, saint, maven / a tribute by Christopher Nupen ; written and directed by Christopher Nupen ; produced by Allegro Films.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Herz-Sommer, Alice, 1903-2014.
- Herz-Sommer, Alice.
- Women pianists--Czech Republic--Prague--Biography.
- Women pianists.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czech Republic.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (54 min.).
- Contained In:
- Everything Is a Present: Alice Sommer Herz
- Other Title:
- Wonder and the grace of Alice Sommer Herz
- Place of Publication:
- Guildford, England : Allegro Films, 2009.
- Language Note:
- Spoken portions in English with sections in German.
- 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.
- Participant:
- Alice Sommer Herz, interviewee and performer (piano).
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Jul. 25, 2014).
- Contains:
- Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Sonatas, piano, no. 14, op. 27, no. 2, C♯ minor. Selections.
- OCLC:
- 891105813
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