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Holocaust Music – Music of the Holocaust

Music of the Holocaust and its composers


Music of the Holocaust and its composers:

Composer: Name of Work:
Lior Navok And the Trains Kept Coming. . .

Holocaust related Oratorio involving authentic documents as libretto. The work touches the theme of bystanders and the Alley’s delayed response / lack of response to the Jewish Holocaust.

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Lior Navok Found in a Train Station

For Soprano and Ensemble. The work’s text is an authentic letter found on an infant, in a train station somewhere in Poland. The letter, written by a mother who decided to abandon her child, right before stepping on the train that will take her to a death camp.

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And The Trains Kept Coming. . . (Slavery Documents 3)

for chorus, soloists and orchestra

Duration: 44 minutes  
Instrumentation:  Tenor solo, Bass-Baritone Solo, Two Narrators, Boy Soprano, Choir and Orchestra.
(with additional soprano and alto from within the choir)
 
 

Found in a Train Station

for soprano and ensemble

Duration: 11.5 minutes  
Instrumentation: Soprano, Mandolin, Clarinet, Violin, Cello and Piano