Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Good going, Peter! S. Dimitrov On Apr 30, 2007, at 8:13 AM, Peter Klein wrote: > Folks: Just thought I'd share this. > > As some of you know, classical music is one of my passions, along > with photography. I've worked in both public radio and print media > before I became a computer geek. I was recently asked to write an > article for JT News, the bi-weekly newspaper of the Seattle Jewish > community. The article is about an upcoming concert by Music of > Remembrance, which commissions and performs music from or about the > Holocaust. > > This year they're doing something different. They commissioned a > well-known contemporary composer to write a piece about the > persecution of gay men in Nazi Germany. The work will receive its > world premiere at Benaroya Hall (Seattle's symphony hall) on Monday > evening, May 7. It will share the program with a piece written by a > composer who died in a concentration camp, a piece with both Jewish > and gypsy (Roma) themes, and a song cycle set to poems by Primo > Levi, the celebrated Italian-Jewish writer and Auschwitz survivor. > > My story was published Friday. Here's it is online: > http://www.jtnews.net/index.php?/news/item/ > forbidden_a_look_or_a_touch/ > > It's nice to be in print again. > > --Peter > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information