Seattle Times
| The second work shot straight to the heart. “Found in a Train Station,” a work for soprano and a chamber ensemble, was written last year by the young Israeli composer Lior Navok. It is based on a note found in a Polish train station, pinned to a baby, written by a mother about to be shipped off to a Nazi death camp. Soprano Vira Slywotsky read the heart-rending text of the note, alternating with a vocalese that floated, wailed and showed every kind of emotion one could expect at the horrifying moment of giving up one’s child in the midst of a nightmare. |
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