Hans KRÁSA Brundibár

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Ela Stein Weissberger’s photo Hans of the Brundibár cast at Terezín, in which she played the Cat (front row, dressed in black). KRÁSA Brundibár An Opera for Children English Libretto by Tony Kushner Music of Remembrance • Gerard Schwarz

Ela Stein Weissberger joining the cast of Music of Remembrance’s Brundibár, May 8, 2006.

A special thanks to Ela Stein Weissberger for sharing her courage and memories with the world.

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Hans ( 2. YES, THAT’S THE WAY THINGS ARE ¡ 4. THE GARDEN KRÁSA (Koleba: M. Ko‰ek, H. Löwy, Bachner) (Franta Bass) (1899-1944) I. A little garden Brundibár (1943) 1 In Terezín in the so-called park Fragrant and full of roses. A queer old granddad sits The path is narrow Czech libretto by Adolf Hoffmeister • English adaptation by Tony Kushner Somewhere there in the so-called park. And a little boy walks along it. Erich Parce, Stage Director He wears a beard down to his lap And on his head, a little cap. A little boy, a sweet boy, World première recording of the Tony Kushner libretto Like that growing blossom. II. When the blossom comes to bloom, Cast (in order of appearance) Hard crusts he crumbles in his gums, The little boy will be no more. He’s only got one single tooth. Pepíãek ...... Ross Hauck My poor old man with working gums, Aninku ...... Maureen McKay Instead of soft rolls, lentil soup. ™ 5. MAN PROPOSES, GOD DISPOSES My poor old greybeard! (Koleba, 1944: M. Ko‰ek, H. Löwy, Bachner) Ice Cream Seller ...... Jesse Parce Baker ...... Evan Woltz I. Milkman ...... Jadd Davis ) 3. BIRDSONG Who was helpless back in Prague, (Anonymous, 1941) And who was rich before, Policeman ...... Michael Drumheller He’s a poor soul here in Terezín, Brundibár ...... Morgan Smith He doesn’t know the world at all His body’s bruised and sore. Sparrow ...... Holly Boaz Who stays in his nest and doesn’t go out. He doesn’t know what birds know best II. Cat ...... David Korn Nor what I want to sing about, Who was toughened up before, Dog ...... Auston James That the world is full of loveliness. He’ll survive these days. But who was used to servants When dewdrops sparkle in the grass Will sink into his grave. Northwest Boychoir • Joseph Crnko, Chorus-master And earth’s aflood with morning light, Music of Remembrance • Gerard Schwarz, Conductor A blackbird sings upon a bush To greet the dawning after night. £ 6. THE OLD HOUSE Then I know how fine it is to live. (Franta Bass) Permission to use the English libretto by Tony Kushner was granted by the author. Hey, try to open up your heart Deserted here, the old house To beauty; go to the woods someday stands in silence, asleep. Overture for Small Orchestra (1943-44) 2 And weave a wreath of memory there. The old house used to be so nice, Then if the tears obscure your way before, standing there, Craig Sheppard, Piano You’ll know how wonderful it is it was so nice. To be alive. Music of Remembrance • Gerard Schwarz, Conductor Now it is deserted, rotting in silence— What a waste of houses, a waste of hours. 8.570119 2 23 8.570119 570119 bk Krasa US 25/10/06 21:25 Page 22

Bullies don’t give up completely. EVERYONE Music of Remembrance One departs, the next appears, Tyrants come along, Violin: Jeannie Wells Yablonsky 1, 2, Mikhail Shmidt 1, 2, Leonid Keylin 1, 2, Mariel Bailey 1, 2 And we shall meet again, my dears! But just you wait and see! Though I go, I won’t go far! They topple one-two-three! Viola: Susan Gulkis Assadi 2, Arie Schachter 2 I’ll be back – Love, BRUNDIBAR! Our friends make us strong! Cello: Mara Finkelstein 1, 2, Julian Schwarz 2 • Double Bass: Jonathan Green 1 And so we end our song! Flute: Scott Goff 1 • Clarinet: Laura DeLuca 1, 2, Jennifer Nelson 1, 2 (He vanishes!) Trumpet: David Gordon 1, 2, Geoffrey Bergler 2 • Guitar: Steven Novacek 1 KONEC! Percussion: Matthew Kocmieroski 1 • Accordion: Diane Schmidt 1 (THE END!) Piano: Mina Miller 1

No performance or reading of this work may be given without express permission of the adapter. Inquiries regarding performance rights should be addressed to the author’s agent: Lori Joyce Ketay LAITMAN The Gersh Agency (b. 1955) 41 Madison Avenue 33rd Floor I Never Saw Another Butterfly (1995-96) NYC NY 10010 World première recording of new arrangement for soprano and clarinet (212) 634-8105 Poems by Terezín’s child prisoners murdered in the Holocaust The Butterfly (Pavel Friedmann) Yes, That’s the Way Things Are (Koleba) I NEVER SAW ANOTHER BUTTERFLY Birdsong (Anonymous) MUSIC BY LORI LAITMAN The Garden (Franta Bass) Poems by Terezín’s child prisoners murdered in the Holocaust Man Proposes, God Disposes (Koleba) * 1. THE BUTTERFLY For seven weeks I’ve lived in here, The Old House (Franta Bass) (Pavel Friedmann, 1942) Penned up inside this ghetto. But I have found what I love here. Maureen McKay, Soprano • Laura DeLuca, Clarinet The last, the very last The dandelions call to me So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow. And the white chestnut branches in the court. Perhaps if the sun’s tears would sing Only I never saw another butterfly. Permission to use these texts was granted by The Jewish Museum of Prague, copyright holder. against a white stone.... Such, such a yellow That butterfly was the last one. Is carried lightly ’way up high. Butterflies don’t live in here, This recording was made possible by the generous support It went away I’m sure because it wished to in the ghetto. of the Charles Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences. kiss the world good-bye.

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Hans Krása (1899-1944) Now you are very old. And what’s the cause of it? Well Brundibár • Overture for Small Orchestra Your hair is soft and grey. listen up: We won’t submit! Mommy, the cradle’s cold. Just listen: We never quit! The fate of children in the Holocaust represents a sufficiently daring, as a modern composer, to write Blackbird has flown away.... The bully’s overthrown uniquely haunting tragedy. It has been estimated that melodic music. This reflects my whole attitude to For you were not alone! over one million children were murdered under Nazi music, whether it is called modern or anything else. My (The crowd of people, including the policeman, the That’s the whole point of it! rule. Children had even smaller chances of surviving music is strictly founded on the concept of accessible milkman, the baker and the ice-cream seller, have than adults. In the ghettos they were especially melodic character.” gathered to listen. In silence, they put lots and lots of PEPICEK (speaking:) vulnerable to disease and starvation. Not considered Krása’s first important success as a composer came money in the milkbucket. Pepicek looks in.) Ladies, and gentlemen! useful for forced labor, children were commonly in 1920 with his Four Orchestral Songs, based on the And, mostly, child-er-ren! selected for execution as soon as they arrived at the “Songs from the Gallows” poems of Christian PEPICEK (speaking:) Thank you, etcetera! camps. At the Terezín concentration camp alone, 15,000 Morgenstern. His 1923 Symphony was performed under Wow! It’s unbelievable! Thus ends our opera. children under the age of fifteen passed through the Serge Koussevitzky in Boston, and his 1933 prize- Aninku! The pail is full! gates between 1942 and 1944. Perhaps fewer than 100 winning opera Verlobung im Traum (Betrothal in a ANINKU (speaking:) of them were alive at the war’s end. Yet, remarkably, Dream), based on a Dostoevsky story, was conducted in ANINKU (speaking:) That’s all the tale to tell. many of Terezín’s children were part of an inspiring Prague by George Szell. Krása produced numerous Mister Milkman, please exchange it: We two had best bestir. creative legacy. In this recording we remember those chamber and vocal works, and composed incidental Milk for money! Mommy’s not feeling well, children through the words they wrote, and the music music to the theatre piece “Youth at Play” by Adolf And we have milk for her. they sang. Hoffmeister, later his collaborator on Brundibár. THE MILKMAN (speaking:) Krása, a Jew and an anti-fascist, was arrested by the I’ll arrange it. EVERYONE Mina Miller, Nazis on August 10, 1942 and sent to the Terezín For help is everywhere! Music of Remembrance Artistic Director concentration camp. Like the other Czech composers BRUNDIBAR (speaking:) Below and in the air! imprisoned there – Viktor Ullmann, Gideon Klein, Not so fast, just wait a second! Sometimes it’s all around, Hans Krása (1899-1944) came of age in his native Pavel Haas – Krása became part of a remarkable Not before my fee’s been reckoned. sometimes it must be found, Prague, which was a major crossroads during a creative community. Krása’s compositions at Terezín I work here. What’s in that pail — but if you ask for help, well watershed period of European musical life. If his early include a set of songs, the Passacaglia and Fugue for (Dog, stop chewing on my tail!) listen up, we’re here to say: promise had not been cut short by World War II and the string trio (1943), and the Overture for Small Orchestra — Belongs to ME! It can’t be spent! Don’t worry! Help’s on the way! Holocaust, Krása might have continued emerging as an (1943-44) presented on this recording. The children’s This is MY street: pay me rent! And when you take a stand, influential composer of his generation. opera Brundibár, which Krása re-scored at Terezín, is someone will lend a hand! Krása learned piano and violin as a child and went the core of an extraordinary legacy. (Brundibar snatches the money. The dog and the cat That’s the whole point of it! on to study composition with Alexander Zemlinsky. On October 16, 1944 Krása was deported to and the sparrow bark, yowl and twitter! The After graduating from the German Music Academy in Auschwitz and murdered upon his arrival. schoolchildren, led by Aninku and Pepicek, advance on When a bully’s near, Prague, he became a vocal coach at Prague’s German Overture for Small Orchestra was composed at the Brundibar, who drops the bucket and runs away.) tell him you’re not afraid! Theater, and briefly worked in Berlin at the Kroll Opera height of Brundibár’s popularity at the camp, and there You’ll see him fade away! before returning to Prague. While thoroughly grounded has been speculation that he intended it as an Friends will volunteer! in the music of the classical and romantic masters, Krása introduction to the children’s opera. The overture is ^ SCENE SEVEN And bullies disappear! was strongly influenced by the new directions of the scored for 2 clarinets, 2 trumpets, 4 violins, 2 violas, 2 FINALE (Brundibar sneaks back onstage and addresses the early twentieth century, especially impressionism and celli, and piano. With the exception of the violas, the audience!) other French music. In the late 1920s he traveled to work’s instrumentation is similar to the opera, and EVERYONE Paris to study with Albert Roussel. Krása self- contains at least one melodic parallel. Survivors from Trombone and kettle drum! BRUNDIBAR consciously sought to reconcile traditional tonality with Terezín have recalled that Krása was ordered to The villain’s overcome! They believe they’ve won the fight, modernism. 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ANINKU & PEPICEK (speaking:) ANINKU, PEPICEK & THE SCHOOLCHILDREN thought that Brundibár – like any opera – required an for the Jews of the Prague ghetto. Before the first Dog and kitty, kids and birdie, In the basement, down below, overture. However, there exists no evidence that the performance, Krása, as well as the opera’s conductor, Bark and sing and hiss and scratch, On the roof, where breezes blow, overture was ever performed at Terezín, and Krása’s Rafael Schaechter, were arrested and sent in the first Till that wheezy hurdy-gurdy Every kid in each apartment, intent for it remains unclear. transport of Prague Jews to Theresienstadt, or Terezín, learns it’s finally met its match. Rich and poor and quick and slow, Brundibár is known today as the children’s opera the Nazi’s “model ghetto” for the Jews of Central Knows when night is gathering nigh, that was performed 55 times at the Terezín Bohemia—in reality a concentration camp and a way (The sparrow circles the stage and lands.) Mommy sings a lullaby: concentration camp near Prague. Its casts needed station for the death camps of Auschwitz, Birkenau, constant replenishing when the child performers were Treblinka. THE SPARROW Mommy sings “Rockabye, transported to death camps after most shows. Although In spite of the arrests, Brundibár was performed at Flew off to school, Baby, when you are grown, the Nazis exploited Brundibár in propaganda intended the Vinohrady Orphanage, conducted by Rudolph Told them the news. You’ll sing a lullabye and to convince the world of their benign treatment of Freudenfeld, son of the orphanage’s director. The piece Teacher’s no fool, I’ll be left alone. Terezín’s inmates, nearly all of the children who was given three performances before the transports Couldn’t refuse. performed in the opera were deported to Auschwitz and rounded up Freudenfeld father and son, director and She’ll ring the bell. Baby blackbird, fly now; died in the gas chambers. designer Franti‰ek Zelenka, pianist Gideon Klein, who (The bell rings.) Time to go; In 1992 Brundibár was republished, and since then had been the accompanist, and the boys of the School is released! Who knows why? the opera has been performed at least 100 times across Vinohrady Orphanage. Everyone’s pleased! Spring is gone, Europe and the Americas. More than sixty years after Rudolph Freudenfeld had hidden a copy of the More on the way, Summer’s in, Terezín, Brundibár continues to speak to people of all piano score in his luggage, and so Brundibár arrived in Everyone say, World awaits, it’s ages through its story, music and legacy. In 2003, Terezín, where Krása was now the inmate in charge of Hip-hip-hooray! Time to fly...” Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner and music for the Freizeitgestaltung (Free Time Activities illustrator Maurice Sendak collaborated on a striking Administration). Krása brilliantly re-orchestrated the (The dog, the cat and the sparrow attack Brundibar!) (Refrain:) picture book of the Brundibár tale, and this has become piano score, taking advantage of the presence in Terezín Trees grow high, rivers dry, the basis for a new production of the opera using of a number of talented instrumentalists. In September BRUNDIBAR Clouds and hours billow by, Kushner’s English-language libretto. 1943, the Vinohrady group, now concentration camp Vanish, cat, you fleabit bandit! Day by day, flown away... inmates, staged a new, co-ed production, cast with Ouch! Watch out! She bit my hand, it Tony Kushner offers the following remarks: imprisoned children. The opera became a hit among the Hurts! I’ll call the cops, and men’ll Baby, in such a rush, In 1938, the Czech Ministry of Education and Culture inmate population: Rudolph Freudenfeld conducted, Come to lock you in a kennel. Grew up, grew straight and tall; sponsored a competition for a children’s opera. Among Zelenka directed and designed a new set, the poet Emil Maybe you’ll feel a blush those vying for the prize was a 40-year-old Prague Saudek wrote a new anthem for the opera’s finale, You can’t bark if I say stop it! When, Mommy, you recall: composer, Hans Krása, whose entry, libretto by the emphasizing Brundibár’s political value as allegory—in If it’s fists you want, I got ‘em! playwright Adolf Hoffmeister, was Brundibár (the word photos of the production the boy playing Brundibár is Look he’s got my organ! Drop it! Naked how you bathed us, is Czech for bumblebee). wearing a mustache, which, though more of the Ow the dog has bit my bottom! In the sink, I haven’t been able to find out whether Brundibár handlebar than toothbrush variety, surely made its point. Warm and wet, won the competition or whether the competition was Brundibár was performed 55 times at Terezín. It % SCENE SIX Gave us milk, ever concluded. A few months after the opera was was begun by Jews for Jews, but before long the camp Whispered soft, completed the German army invaded and occupied officials recognized the propaganda potential of (The dog chases the organ-grinder. Then, at a signal “Little pet, Czechoslovakia. Krása, who was Jewish, would have Brundibár, with its singing prisoner children and from Aninku, the fanfare starts and the schoolchildren You’ll soon forget...” been barred from participation in such a contest, his “happy” (or at least momentarily distracted) prisoner assemble into a choir, standing before the empty music unperformable before a general audience audiences. The opera was performed for the milkbucket. 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conditions. Segments of the performance were filmed can make bullies behave! Rely on friends! Make THE DOG $ SCENE FIVE and included in the film Der Führer schenkt den Juden common cause, build communities, organize, and resist! It’s no cigar, eine Stadt (The Führer Gives the Jews a City), produced And tyrants of all kinds, in every generation, can be and Unless their song is more than his. (Brundibar enters, playing his organ.) by the Nazis and directed by a camp inmate, the great must be made to fall. Come on, show what friendship is! actor and singer Kurt Gerron. BRUNDIBAR The opera’s director and designer, the poet Saudek, About this Recording DOG, CAT & SPARROW Morning, people, here’s a bargain: Kurt Gerron and nearly all the children who performed Comrades gather, show your claws, I will grind my magic organ, Brundibár—including Honza Treichlinger, the boy who This is the first commercially-released recording of Add your voices to our cause! And its music will bewitch. became a Terezín celebrity for creating the title role of Brundibár with Tony Kushner’s brilliant libretto. While Tyrants fall! Dictators crumble! You throw money, I grow rich! the wicked organ grinder—were eventually sent to faithful to the opera’s musical idiom and its magical We need you to make one tumble! Auschwitz where they were murdered. Hans Krása died children’s tale of triumph over evil, Kushner employs a Got no brass band, got no choir, in the gas chambers of Auschwitz in October 1944. language that gives Brundibár an immediacy for today’s (The schoolchildren confer with one another, and But I am the sole supplier Brundibár is a beautiful children’s story, extolling audiences. Kushner makes Brundibár himself more respond:) If you want a waltz or polka — the virtues of courage, cooperation and collective action three-dimensional, expanding the villainous organ So my music’s mediocre — against tyranny. Even the natural world of dogs, cats, grinder’s first song so that he can explain how he THE SCHOOLCHILDREN and sparrows rises up in outrage and rebellion against became a bully. Kushner also restores the haunting (First group:) You can’t argue with the czar! injustice, poverty and the suffering of children. It’s a “Airplane Song” that Krása cut from the Terezín version Mommy, mommy, The tale of the power of music to make miracles happen. It’s —possibly for concern that the song’s yearning for a Milk for mommy! Organ-grinder Brundibar! a story of good defeating evil. But its beauty is haunted, return home would be too painful to bear. Kushner’s We will form a for Brundibár comes from one of the darkest points in libretto preserves the work’s sense of miracle, but its Singing army! (The dog, the cat, the sparrow, Pepicek, Aninku and the human history, when evil, at least for a time, was chilling epilogue also cautions against false reassurance schoolchildren re-appear. Brundibar, playing, doesn’t triumphant over good, and millions upon millions died. that the struggle against evil is ever finished. (Second group:) notice them.) One could say ultimately the music has triumphed: At Terezín, all 55 performances were cast entirely Mommy, mommy, today Brundibár is performed all over the world, and the with children, though excellent adult singers were Milk for mommy! THE DOG Jewish people have survived, endured, flourished. On available. The Kushner adaptation has been produced We will form a Okay, soldiers, stamp your feet! the other hand, one must always be wary of drawing with adults in the solo roles, but with the young heroes Singing army! Time has come to take the street! false reassurances from the horrific lessons of the Pepíãek and Aninku still sung by children. This Time to roust the villain Brundibar! Holocaust, perhaps especially now, when children all recording, however, uses young adult voices for all solo (Third group:) over the world are in such mortal danger—poor roles, including a soprano Aninku and a tenor Pepíãek, Mommy, mommy, THE CAT children, children in war zones, Jewish and Palestinian along with a boy choir. The recording, made in Seattle Milk for mommy! If you despise him, children, as well as homeless, uninsured, unprotected on May 15, 2006, uses the performers from Music of We will form a Help us surprise him! children in the United States. In dark times such as Remembrance’s live performances of May 8 and 9, Singing army! He thinks that he owns the block; these, Brundibár, both the opera and its tragic history, 2006, in a fully-staged presentation directed by Erich He’s about to get a shock. shouldn’t offer us too much reassurance. We shouldn’t Parce. (All the schoolchildren:) draw comfort from the fact that, even after the worst has MILK FOR MOMMY! THE DOG happened, people and art survive, because after all, only The Story He’ll be sorry when we trounce! some people survive, while many are lost, and some art (The schoolchildren take Aninku and Pepicek by the Pussycat prepare to pounce! is salvaged, but much creative brilliance, like Hans Aninku and Pepíãek’s mother is sick, so they go to the hands and, led by the dog, cat and sparrow, exit, Sparrow find more kids to go to war! Krása’s, is extinguished before its time; and what the market to buy her some milk. They have no money, but planning strategy, as....) world loses can’t be recovered. they notice that whenever the organ-grinder Brundibár (The sparrow flies off. As the dog and the cat sing, Instead of false comfort, Brundibár offers plays music, passers-by give him money. Aninku and Aninku and Pepicek exhort them to attack!) inspiration to action, and exhortation. Be brave, and you Pepíãek sing two songs, but nobody listens. They try

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PEPICEK (speaking:) Ruza takes the News inside, dancing to Brundibár’s music, but the organ-grinder freedom of the butterfly. The poem was written by Pavel Morning, Aninku. Vlasta takes the News to read. chases them away, loudly declaring his dislike for Friedmann, who was born on January 7, 1921, deported children and his pride in being a bully. to Terezín on April 26, 1942, and died in Auschwitz on DOG, CAT & SPARROW (speaking:) Reza gives the rug a shake, Night comes. The two children are frightened and September 29, 1944. Despite the tremendous sadness of The sun has bounced up high, and Tonka walks the poodle out. stumped. How can they overcome Brundibár and earn the text, the message of the poem is one of undying The sky is burning blue. Bozka’s gonna bake a cake, the money to buy milk? A sparrow, a cat, and a dog spirit. Then she’ll take the streudel out. appear, and help work out a plan with Aninku and Yes, That’s the Way Things Are was written by three Jarmila is singing... Pepíãek. The next morning, they enlist all of the village children—Ko‰ek, Löwy, and Bachner, who wrote under ! SCENE TWO And the landlord, children in forming a large choir. While the children the name “Koleba.” Reflecting the irony of the poem, Out his window, sing, the animals attack Brundibár, and together they the music has a quasi-folk song feel—a dancing, (As the children and the animals do their morning Very wealthy, drown out the organ-grinder’s music. A crowd gathers, shifting rhythm, and a modal melody switching between calisthenics, they sing:) Watching.... and before long Pepíãek’s milk pail is full of coins. a minor and major seventh, typical of Jewish folk song. Brundibár demands a cut of the children’s income, but Miroslav Ko‰ek was born on March 30, 1932, at ANINKU, PEPICEK, DOG, CAT & SPARROW they chase him away. Aninku and Pepíãek buy their Horelice in Bohemia and was sent to Terezín on Rooster crows cock-a-doo # SCENE FOUR milk, and everyone celebrates the power of friends February 15, 1942. He died October 19, 1944, at Making the sky turn blue THE MARCH OF THE SCHOOLCHILDREN working together to overthrow tyrants. Auschwitz. Hanus Löwy was born in Ostrava on June Moon drops away, boo-hoo, 29, 1931, deported to Terezín on September 30, 1942, Farmer knows that’s his cue: (A large group of children come out of the houses, Lori Laitman (b. 1955) and died in Auschwitz on October 4, 1944. There is no Get out of bed! carrying schoolbags. The cat, the dog and the sparrow I Never Saw Another Butterfly information on Bachner. stop them and address them:) The author of Birdsong is unknown. In this poem, Kids go on slumbering Lori Laitman is an acclaimed creator of art songs the author is able to rise above the living conditions to Till their alarm clocks ring. DOG, CAT & SPARROW (speaking:) performed in the United States and abroad. She received focus on the loveliness of life. Ascending phrases are Don’t stuff it under the Children stop, we must delay you! her Bachelor of Arts and Masters in music from Yale used to portray hope. Pillow, a blunder, it We need help and so we pray you University. Since 1991, Laitman has worked with many The Garden was written by Franta Bass, born in Rings in your head! Come with us, skip school today. contemporary poets, as well as setting classic poets such Brno on September 4, 1930. He was sent to Terezín on as Emily Dickinson. Her three CDs are available on December 2, 1941, and died in Auschwitz on October Rooster and ringing bell THE SPARROW Albany Records: Mystery—The Songs of Lori Laitman, 28, 1944. The little boy walking along the garden path is Know us all very well: They need milk, don’t have a penny, Dreaming, and Becoming a Redwood. The Cleveland portrayed by a weaving clarinet part with subtle School is a bother we And they’ve come from far away. Opera presented the world première of her opera Come rhythmic changes. Know we’d all rather be They are two and you are many. to Me in Dreams in 2004. Several of Laitman’s song Man Proposes, God Disposes was also written by Sleeping instead! cycles have had their première at Music of the three children who signed their name “Koleba.” This THE CAT Remembrance: Holocaust 1944 (November 2000), text is a commentary on what used to be, and what is. Mommy’s waiting! She is ailing! Fathers (April 2003), and The Seed of Dream (May Like a cabaret song, the vocal line uses a simple @ SCENE THREE 2005, a MOR commission). This is the première melody, and ends each section with a glissando. THE SPARROW recording of Laitman’s soprano and clarinet version of I The Old House, also written by Franta Bass, ends (The street is coming to life, as people rise and greet When they sing for coins, the wailing Never Saw Another Butterfly. the cycle. The barren image of the deserted house is the morning, performing their chores. The windows And the ranting and the raving captured by the clarinet repeatedly playing one note, sing:) Of that bully, Brundibar, Lori Laitman offers the following remarks: like a bell tolling. The voice and clarinet become more Bossy, pushy, misbehaving, The Butterfly opens the cycle with a cantorial-style part, expressive as the poet recalls happier days, but then THE WINDOWS Scares them off. conjuring up images of a fluttering butterfly. The vocal return to the opening texture. Marty flings the curtains wide, line enters with speech-based rhythms that are melodic Music of Remembrance Artists Anna brings the budgie seed. and lyric. 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Holly Boaz, soprano, the Sparrow in Brundibár, is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin School of Music, and Send out a call! ACT TWO also holds a Masters in music from The Hartt School at the University of Hartford. A member of Seattle Opera’s Tyrants must fall! Young Artists Program, she has performed with Connecticut Opera, Aspen Music Festival, Midland Symphony 0 SCENE ONE Orchestra, and the Music Academy of the West. THE DOG I’m a mutt and you are right, (The moon drops down, the sun comes up. The cat, the Joseph Crnko, choral director, is Music Director of the Northwest Choirs, a position he has held for over 20 years. And the butt I’d love to bite’s dog, Pepicek and Aninku are asleep. The sparrow The Northwest Boychoir performs regularly with the Seattle Symphony, in addition to collaborations with other The one on which that organ-grinder sits! flitters in.) area professional arts organizations. Previously, Crnko was Music Director and Conductor for Civic Light Opera in Seattle. He has also served as music director for productions with Alaska Light Opera Theatre, Evergreen Theatre DOG, CAT & SPARROW THE SPARROW Conservatory, Seattle Children’s Theatre, and the Professional Actors Training Program at the University of This is our town and we know it well. One of my tricks: Washington. We know where hundreds of children dwell. Wake you at six! We will address them all, Twittering loud: Jadd Davis, tenor, the Milkman in Brundibár, is a native of Butte, MT. He has appeared at the 5th Avenue Theatre, Wake them up with our call, Sun has arose, Coeur d’Alene Summer Theater, Eastside Musical Theater, OperaPlus! of Spokane/Coeur d’Alene, Allegro Each one will say “thumbs up!” Wriggle your toes! Ensemble, and the Northwest Bach Festival. He holds a music degree from Eastern Washington University. We will enlist them all After the sun comes up; THE CAT Laura DeLuca, clarinet, has been a member of the Seattle Symphony since 1986, and has been a soloist with that He can’t resist them all. I hate the sunrise. orchestra in the Copland and Starer concerti. She is co-founder of the Seattle Chamber Players, and her extensive What can scare Brundibar? I think it unwise chamber music appearances have also included performances with the Icicle Creek and Methow festivals, and in Three hundred kids will do. Not to sleep if you’ve a yen; Portugal with the Moscow Piano Quartet. A frequent performer with MOR, she was the clarinetist for Paul And there’ll be even more. Lovely nighttime, come again. Schoenfield’s Camp Songs (a MOR commission), recorded on MOR’s Art from Ashes, Vol. 1. Ms. DeLuca was the You will make three-o-two. solo clarinetist in the Academy Award-winning documentaries The Long Way Home and Into the Arms of Bullying Brundibar THE DOG Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport. She received her formal training at Northwestern University. Won’t scare us anymore! Everybody get up now. Daylight’s breaking, Bow wow wow! Michael Drumheller, baritone, the Policeman in Brundibár, has been a soloist with Boston Lyric Opera, (The children have fallen asleep.) On your feet; no more of lying flat. Cleveland Orchestra, Orchestra Seattle, Longwood Opera, Cascade Symphony, and Choral Sounds Northwest. Born Little children wake up too, in Richland, WA, Drumheller holds a Masters in music from Boston University. DOG, CAT & SPARROW We’ve a villain to undo! The moon sends down its beams, Wake up children, wake up, lazy cat! Ross Hauck, tenor, Pepíãek in Brundibár, is an alumnus of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of To brighten up their dreams, Music. He has sung with Wolf Trap Opera, Sacramento Opera, Tacoma Opera, Aspen Opera, and Opera Idaho. Dreams sweet as ginger-bread: DOG, CAT & SPARROW (speaking:) Hauck has premiered and recorded roles in operas by American composers John Musto and Libby Larsen, and has Mommy with milk in bed! Pepicek wakes up with a growl. appeared at Tanglewood, the Ravinia Festival, the National Symphony Orchestra, and the Chicago Symphony. Pepicek, have no fear, have no fear! PEPICEK (speaking:) Auston James, tenor, the Dog in Brundibár, has appeared at Seattle Children’s Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre, Aninku, we are here, we are here! It’s still night. I heard an owl. Seattle Repertory Theatre, Tacoma Actor’s Guild, The Bathhouse Theatre, The Group Theatre, Pioneer Square It’s time to go to sleep, Theatre, Civic Light Opera, The Idaho Shakespeare Festival, and Seattle Opera. For day is drawing near. DOG, CAT & SPARROW (speaking:) We are here. Aninku wakes up with a yawn. David Korn, male soprano, the Cat in Brundibár, is a New York native who holds a Bachelors and Masters in Sorrows disappear! Opera Performance from The Manhattan School of Music. A graduate of Seattle Opera’s Young Artist program, he ANINKU (speaking:) has performed at Alice Tully Hall, Aspen Opera Theater Center, Seattle Opera, and Central City Opera. END OF ACT ONE That’s the sparrow. Night is gone. Maureen McKay, soprano, Aninku in Brundibár, made her MOR debut in the November 2005 première of Lori Morning, Pepicku. Laitman’s song cycle, I Never Saw Another Butterfly, for soprano and clarinet. The soprano made her New York 9 SERENADE

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ANINKU (speaking:) THE SPARROW City Opera debut as Despina in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, and has also appeared with the National Symphony ... And ghostly ladies, dressed in white... Only thing keeps Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, and the Seattle Symphony. A graduate of Seattle Opera’s Young Artist Program, Bullies and creeps McKay was a Filene Young Artist with Wolf Trap Opera Company, appearing as Johanna in Stephen Sondheim’s PEPICEK (speaking:) From winning out — Sweeney Todd, Ismene in Telemann’s Orpheus, and Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro. The Atlanta native earned her Don’t, Aninku, stop it, please, Pardon my cheeps — Bachelor of Music degree at Georgia’s Columbus State University, and her Masters in music at Ohio State You know it isn’t nice to tease. Punch in the snout. University.

ANINKU (A cat creeps in, softly.) Mina Miller, Music of Remembrance founder and Artistic Director, and pianist, was born in New York, NY, I’m just scared of Brundibar. and studied at The Manhattan School of Music, earning her Ph.D. in Music from New York University. She has THE CAT performed solo recitals at London’s Wigmore Hall, the Tivoli International Music Festival (Copenhagen), and the PEPICEK Watching by moonglow, Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival (Finland); concert engagements took her throughout North America, Great Britain, He’s a different kind of frightful. I see how things go. Europe, and Scandinavia. In 1998, her career as a recitalist and concerto soloist metamorphosed when she founded All alone, the prowling cat; MOR and began serving as the organization’s president and artistic director. A central artistic participant—she was ANINKU Catch a sparrow, mouse or rat. the pianist in the world première of Paul Schoenfield’s Camp Songs, Thomas Pasatieri’s Letter to Warsaw, and Lori Did our singing make him spiteful? Laitman’s The Seed of Dream—Miller’s bold leadership has made MOR the home of “some of Seattle’s best THE SPARROW musicians” (Seattle Times), drawing national attention by engaging guest artists such as soprano Jane Eaglen, tenor PEPICEK Oh my goodness! Vinson Cole, and Seattle Symphony conductor Gerard Schwarz. Recognized for her musical advocacy of Holocaust He’s fast asleep. Something slinking! musicians and of new, Holocaust-related chamber works, Miller has lectured in Seattle and internationally on the In the darkness! Holocaust’s cultural and artistic legacy. She received the Pathfinder Award from The Puget Sound Association of ANINKU What, your Shrewdness, Phi Beta Kappa in May 2003. In 2006, the Women’s Endowment Foundation (a supporting foundation of The I’m still... shaking. Are you thinking? Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle) honored her with the 2006 Phenomenal Woman Award. As a pianist, Miller When I sang, my voice was quaking. enjoys an international reputation for her interpretations of the music of Carl Nielsen. Under the sponsorship of the THE CAT Danish Government and the Danish Cultural Institute, she made extensive tours of Denmark. A reissue of the PEPICEK & ANINKU I don’t like thinking. original double CD (for Hyperion Records/London) of Nielsen’s complete piano music is available on Danacord, Though you shout your insides out you I watch, unblinking. while her CD of Janáãek’s major piano works is available on Ambassador. Know an organ can outshout you. Cats can see through night and fog; We are little... if you want help, ask a dog. Erich Parce, stage director, is a baritone who has performed and recorded MOR’s world premieres of Paul Schoenfield’s Camp Songs, and Lori Laitman’s Holocaust 1944 and The Seed of Dream. Also an accomplished ANINKU (The dog bounces in.) stage director, Mr. Parce has recently led productions of La Bohème, La Traviata, The Magic Flute, Gianni ...And too few. Schicchi, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Amahl and the Night Visitors, and Susannah. Parce has sung at opera companies (Speaking:) THE DOG throughout North America and Europe, including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Seattle Opera, We need more than me and you. Rabbit’s faster than a deer, Greater Miami Opera, L’Opéra de Nice and L’Opéra de Montréal. If the cook says fetch him here, (A sparrow flies in, twittering about.) Not even a greyhound can pursue. Gerard Schwarz, conductor, has been Music Director of the Seattle Symphony for over 20 years. A frequent guest But when dogs hunt in a pack, conductor with Music of Remembrance, he was a founding member of MOR’s Advisory Board. Schwarz has helped THE SPARROW (speaking:) Rabbits flee; we fetch ‘em back, to build numerous orchestras including Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, the New York Chamber Help’s here! I heard! And the cook can make a rabbit stew. Symphony, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Tokyo Philharmonic. Among his guest conducting engagements during the 2006 season are the Philadelphia Orchestra, the ANINKU (speaking:) THE SPARROW Czech and Dresden Philharmonics, and Seattle Opera. His nearly 100 recordings with the Seattle Symphony alone A talking bird! If you are brave, have resulted in 11 Grammy nominations, three ASCAP awards, and Record of the Year and Stereo Review Bullies behave. Awards, and have been mainstays on the classical Billboard charts. Born to Viennese parents, Schwarz is a graduate We need support. of The Juilliard School. He is a recipient of the Ditson Conductor’s Award from Columbia University and was

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named 1994 Conductor of the Year by Musical America. He holds honorary doctorates from The Juilliard School, BRUNDIBAR (speaking:) I got louder, I got taller, Seattle University, the University of Puget Sound, Cornish College of the Arts and Fairleigh Dickinson University, Go on, get then, beat it, scram, then I noticed: Some are smaller! as well as an Honorary Fellowship from John Moores University. He is a member of the National Council on the Don’t you pests know who I am? Also, look, oh Glory be! Arts. They are all afraid of me! ANINKU & PEPICEK (speaking:) Craig Sheppard, piano, has served as Professor of Piano at the University of Washington School of Music since Mister Organ-grinder, grind! Everyone will be my flunkey, 1993. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School, Sheppard has performed with all the We’ll just leave if you don’t mind. just an organ grinder’s monkey – major orchestras in Great Britain, as well as those of Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta, Dallas, If you need an explanation – Seattle, Buffalo and Rochester. In 2004 he gave a seven-concert series in Seattle’s Meany Theater of the 32 BRUNDIBAR (speaking:) I’ve a need for domination! Beethoven piano sonatas. Sheppard performs regularly at the Park City (Utah) International Festival, and teaches Adios! Vamoose! Egress! and performs at the Heifetz International Music Institute in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. He has recorded on EMI Everybody step and sway now (Classics for Pleasure), Polygram (Philips), Sony, Chandos and Cirrus. Four CDs, all of live performances, have (The two children run away, terrified.) To the tune my organ’s playing; recently been issued on the label AT (Annette Tangermann)/Berlin. My way is the only way now THE MILKMAN (speaking:) And there’ll be no disobeying! Morgan Smith, baritone, the title role in Brundibár, made his professional opera debut in 2001 in Britten’s Billy Didn’t want my milk, I guess. Budd at Seattle Opera, where he has also sung Prince Yamadori in Madama Butterfly, Capt. Peter Niles in the I’m the loudest one by FAR revised world première of Mourning Becomes Electra, Morales in Carmen, and Sonora in La Fanciulla del West. The The White Plains, NY native has also performed at Austin Lyric Opera, Portland Opera, San Francisco Opera, and 8 SCENE EIGHT Organ-grinder Brundibar! with the Cincinnati, Detroit, Milwaukee, Baltimore, Seattle, St. Louis, and National Symphony orchestras. His FIRST ACT FINALE coming engagements include the world première of Thomas Pasatieri’s Frau Margot at Ft. Worth Opera, the lead (Brundibar plays as he exits with his money. The people role in Don Giovanni with Seattle Opera, and his appearance as solo vocalist in the 2007 world première of Jake BRUNDIBAR disperse. Dusk falls, and shadows stretch. Aninku and Heggie’s For a Look or a Touch, a MOR commission. Little children, how I hate ‘em, Pepicek creep out from behind a rain barrel.) How I wish the bedbugs ate ‘em! Music of Remembrance How their parents overrate ‘em! ANINKU (speaking:) Music of Remembrance (MOR) fills a unique spiritual and cultural role in Seattle and throughout the United States If they’re rude exterminate ‘em! No milk, no bread, no bed, it’s grim. by remembering Holocaust musicians and their art through musical performances, educational activities, musical recordings and commissions of new works. Nasty little children, quiet! PEPICEK (speaking:) It is well known that the Nazi regime banned performances of music by living and historical Jewish composers, Don’t be loud don’t even try it! That scary man! and by many others they deemed degenerate. Amid the horrors, there were courageous musicians who dared to You’ll find out what troubles are, No more of him. create—even imprisoned in the ghettos and camps. It is a priceless gift that much of this music has survived as If you bother Brundibar! moral and artistic defiance in the face of catastrophe. We must ensure that these voices of musical witness be heard. ANINKU (speaking:) The Music of Remembrance mission is not religious, nor is its scope limited to Jewish music. Although the Here’s a secret – don’t disclose it – I want to sleep; I think I might. Holocaust was primarily an assault on Jewish culture, others suffered as well in what was history’s most potent best for me if no one knows it! instance of totalitarian suppression of intellectual and creative work. Musicians’ resistance took many forms, and When I was a tiny sprout PEPICEK (speaking:) crossed many national and religious boundaries. So that their resistance was not in vain, we remember these everybody drowned me out! Shadows leap about. It’s night. musicians by preserving and performing their music. From the depths of human suffering comes the healing beauty Little kids head for their homes. of hope and renewal. When I was a tender puppy every bully beat me uppy, ANINKU (speaking:) Website: www.musicofremembrance.org I was beaten but unbowed: Night time is the time for gnomes... I grew bigger, I got LOUD: PEPICEK (speaking:) Let’s sit quiet, till it’s light.

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Sometimes we wave hello. THE ICE-CREAM SELLER (speaking:) BRUNDIBÁR We know that he waves too. No, but sometimes one escapes. An Opera For Children He sees us down below, MUSIC BY HANS KRÁSA Up in his yonder blue. THE BAKER (speaking:) Someday we’ll ride a plane, Are they grizzly bears, or brown? Libretto by Adolf Hoffmeister Someday close to the sun, English Version by Tony Kushner But we’ll come home again when BRUNDIBAR (speaking:) Our long journey is done. It’s two filthy jackanapes! Little kids! ACT ONE PEPICEK & ANINKU (The crowd ignores the singing children; but people are He laid a finger on his nose. still giving money to Brundibar.) THE POLICEMAN (speaking:) 1 SCENE ONE “Nobody knows how illness goes. Behave yourselves! She’ll go to sleep, now, children, quick, ANINKU (speaking:) (It’s early morning. Two children, a small boy and a Milk is the best thing for the sick!” People don’t seem interested BRUNDIBAR (speaking:) small girl, are walking down a city street. The Windows In a worried singing kid. They have evil eyes, like elves! are watching them:) THE WINDOWS Behave! Not likely! Snotty-noses! While mommy’s sleeping, fetch it quick; PEPICEK (speaking:) Wicked! That’s my diagnosis! THE WINDOWS Milk is the best thing for the sick. They’re all grown-up; as I feared, Look at that one writhe and squirm, it Down our street a little band: The music grown-ups like is weird. Doubtless lacks a dancing permit! Brother holding sister’s hand. PEPICEK & ANINKU Mommy’s sick and daddy’s dead. Mommy is sleeping, fetch it quick, ANINKU (speaking:) THE BAKER (speaking:) Daddy died, mommy’s sick in bed. Milk will cure you if you’re sick. I sing like a songbird does And that other wretched creature, But no one hears a note because... Did you hear her sing, the screecher? PEPICEK I am Pepicek, how are you? 2 SCENE TWO PEPICEK (speaking:) BRUNDIBAR (speaking:) This is my sister, Aninku. ...That organ-grinder grinds so loud Starvelings chittering in their nest! Sorrow in every step we tread: (The street is filling up with people. An ice-cream he’s drowned us out, and so the crowd seller, a baker and a milkman enter with carts laden Pays only him! He’s grinding gears... (The ice-cream seller grabs the children and turns to PEPICEK & ANINKU with their wares.) the policeman.) Daddy died, mommy’s sick in bed. ANINKU (speaking:) THE ICE-CREAM SELLER (speaking:) ...And wheezing so, it hurts my ears! THE ICE-CREAM SELLER (speaking:) PEPICEK My ice-cream’s so cold it burns! And he’s been playing here for years! What are you waiting for? Make an arrest! Mommy called Doctor What’s-his-name. Greedy folk who gobble hasty Will turn blue and pucker-faced-y, PEPICEK (speaking:) BRUNDIBAR (speaking:) ANINKU Eat it slow, it’s nice and tasty! He plays like seasick sailors do. I won’t play if this persists! Higgelty-piggelty, in he came. Vanill-kova! He needs a dancing bear, or two. Chocolate-kova! THE POLICEMAN (speaking:) PEPICEK Citronova! (The children begin to dance to the organ-grinder’s Come, you little anarchists! “I am the doctor, I know best!” Cold-throat-kova! music, imitating dancing bears.) Creamy! Drippy! Chilly! Yummy! ANINKU & PEPICEK (speaking:) ANINKU Put my ice-cream in your tummy! THE MILKMAN (speaking:) No, no, please oh Mister Cop! Put his cold ear on mommy’s breast. Are dancing bears allowed in town? Don’t arrest us, we will stop!

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3 SCENE THREE (Aninku and Pepicek go up to the milkman with their For the finer things in life you ANINKU (speaking:) empty milkbucket.) Must be able to pay. Pepicek, I know, I know what we’ll do! (People crowd around the ice-cream seller’s cart.) I’ll sing a song for them, and you will too. PEPICEK & ANINKU Mister Milkman’s cap is white while THE WINDOWS Hey milkman right away, Baker’s apron is not! PEPICEK (speaking:) Gather round the ice-cream seller Give us milk, quickly, Milk is fancy, bread is common, Good, Aninku, something cheerful! Neath his icy-blue umbreller. Fresh milk will save the day. Milk costs more than you’ve got! They’ll pay once they’ve had an earful. Mommy is sickly. THE BAKER (speaking:) Everybody must make money ANINKU & PEPICEK (speaking:) From my bakery, hot and stuffy, THE MILKMAN If they’re planning to buy. The song about the dog and cat? Black bread, brown bread, fat and fluffy, Here’s something I have found: Anyone who’s got no money Mr. Skinny and Mrs. Fat? Crackers crunchy, creampuffs puffy, You can’t deny it! Should be planning to die. The summer wind? The harvest moon? Cornbread, pumpernickel, rye! Milk makes the world go round! Or... Yes! Everybody loves this tune: Every cookie, every pie, Step up and buy it! ANINKU (speaking:) Every biscuit, every roll, Mommy needs milk, like the doctor said. Cross my heart and hope to die THE WINDOWS 7 SCENE SEVEN Oven-fresh, upon my soul. In your bucket he will pour it PEPICEK (speaking:) If you’ve got the money for it. But we’ve got no money to buy milk and bread. (The children put their empty milkbucket on the street (The crowd throngs around the baker and his basket.) and sing:) MILKMAN & WINDOWS THE WINDOWS There’s no milk if there’s no penny; 6 SCENE SIX ANINKU & PEPICEK Fresh-baked bread he hopes will tempt, he Even kitties can’t have any. When the winter wind came blowing, Hopes tonight his basket’s empty. (The organ-grinder, Brundibar, arrives, playing. Goosey flew up high; PEPICEK & ANINKU The two children watch people buying bread and ice- Daddy heard his mournful honking; THE MILKMAN You’ve got a lot of milk, cream and milk, paying and receiving. And they watch We heard daddy cry: Milk, oh! Milk, oh! Milk, oh! Milk, oh! Baker looks quite well-fed, people dropping coins in Brundibar’s cap.) Farm-fresh milk, oh! We’ve got nothing, not a cent, Why goose why goose do you fly so Milk for kiddies, milk for mudders, And poor mommy’s sick in bed. ANINKU (speaking:) If I may inquire? Milk for cats from Bessie’s udders! Look at the people; with the money they earn If you’re feeling cold we’ll warm you Fresh cold milk, oh, milk, oh, milk, oh. PEPICEK & ANINKU & WINDOWS They pay and receive milk and bread in return. In an oven fire. Butter too, and cheese. Hey, Mister Milkman, please! Give us some milk now! (Pepicek speaks to the policeman.) (No one pays attention to them so they try another song:) For milk is healthy, healthy, healthy. 4 SCENE FOUR PEPICEK (speaking:) ANINKU & PEPICEK But the organ-grinder, Mr. Policeman, Soaring high overhead, (Everyone rushes to the milkman.) 5 SCENE FIVE they pay him very well, Silvery-white he gleams, Though he only has music, has nothing to sell. While we are snug abed, THE WINDOWS (A policeman emerges from the crowd and addresses Lost in our favorite dreams. Hey milkman ring your bell. the children.) THE POLICEMAN (speaking:) In his propeller plane, When you call, all come. He’s got no merchandise, He can touch the sun! You’ve got your milk to sell. THE POLICEMAN Just music to entice, And he’ll pass by again Mommy would like some. Everything in life costs money, But music’s very nice; When the next morning’s begun. Nothing’s given away. For pennies: worth the price! 8.570119 12 13 8.570119 570119 bk Krasa US 25/10/06 21:25 Page 12

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Ela Stein Weissberger joining the cast of Music of Remembrance’s Brundibár, May 8, 2006.

A special thanks to Ela Stein Weissberger for sharing her courage and memories with the world.

8.570119 24 NAXOS NAXOS Brundibár is part of an inspiring human legacy. Hans Krása’s beautiful children’s opera, performed 55 times at the Terezín concentration camp, stands as a memorial to its original performers, the child inmates of Terezín. Tony Kushner’s acclaimed new English libretto, which receives its world première recording here, brings a modern vibrancy to Brundibár’s story about the triumph of good over evil, and the power of friendship to change the world. Contemporary American composer Lori Laitman’s powerful song cycle I Never Saw Another Butterfly captures the voices of six extraordinary poems by Terezín’s child prisoners. 8.570119 Krása’s and Laitman’s works are a deep tribute to the human spirit. They honor the lives and legacy of those remarkable persons – especially children – whose creative work was an expression of spiritual DDD resistance to tyranny. Produced by Music of Remembrance, a Seattle-based non-profit organization dedicated to remembering Holocaust musicians through their art (www.musicofremembrance.org). Playing Time Hans Lori 53:39 KRÁSA LAITMAN KRÁSA: (1899-1944) (b. 1955) KRÁSA: Brundibár (1943) 1 31:24 I Never Saw Another Butterfly 1-8 Act One 18:06 (1995-96) 3 16:46 * The Butterfly 5:17 9 Serenade 1:10 ( Yes, That’s the Way Things Are 1:52 Brundibár 0-^ Act Two 12:08 ) Birdsong 3:22 Brundibár ¡ The Garden 2:26 & Overture for Small Orchestra ™ Man Proposes, God Disposes 0:46 www.naxos.com Made in Canada Booklet notes and libretto in English 2 £

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Music of Remembrance 1, 2 • Gerard Schwarz, Conductor 1, 2 Northwest Boychoir 1 • Craig Sheppard, Piano 2 2006 Naxos Rights International Ltd. Maureen McKay, Soprano 3 • Laura DeLuca, Clarinet 3 A full artist listing can be found on pages 2 and 3 of the booklet This recording was made possible by the generous support of the Charles Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences. Tracks 1-16 recorded at Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, on May 15th, 2006 Track 17 recorded at the S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, on May 8th, 2006 Tracks 18-23 recorded at Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, on May 7th, 2006

8.570119 Produced, engineered and edited by Albert G. Swanson 8.570119 Publishers: Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd. (tracks 1-16), Tempo Praha/Bote & Bock Berlin (track 17), Arsis Press, Washington, D.C. (tracks 18-23) Cover art: Shen Design • Adapted from Walter Heimann’s Brundibár souvenir poster, Theresienstadt: April 1944, courtesy of the Terezín Memorial Museum