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Sing China!
directed by Freida Lee Mock, fl. 1967-2013; composed by Carl Orff, 1895-1982; produced by Freida Lee Mock, fl. 1967-2013, American Film Foundation and Sanders and Mock Productions; performed by Los Angeles Children's Chorus (Santa Monica, CA: American Film Foundation, 2009), 1 hour 12 mins
Sing China!, a sequel to the Oscar-nomiated film Sing!, tells the moving often funny story of how children can be a force in diplomacy as they build bridges between China and the United States through the power of music.
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directed by Freida Lee Mock, fl. 1967-2013; composed by Carl Orff, 1895-1982; produced by Freida Lee Mock, fl. 1967-2013, American Film Foundation and Sanders and Mock Productions; performed by Los Angeles Children's Chorus (Santa Monica, CA: American Film Foundation, 2009), 1 hour 12 mins
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Sing China!, a sequel to the Oscar-nomiated film Sing!, tells the moving often funny story of how children can be a force in diplomacy as they build bridges between China and the United States through the power of music.
Field of Study
Classical Music
Content Type
Documentary
Performer / Ensemble
Los Angeles Children's Chorus
Contributor
Freida Lee Mock, fl. 1967-2013, American Film Foundation, Sanders and Mock Productions
Author / Creator
Carl Orff, 1895-1982, Freida Lee Mock, fl. 1967-2013, Los Angeles Children's Chorus
Date Published / Released
2009
Publisher
American Film Foundation
Topic / Theme
Travel, Vocal groups, Children, Concerts, Diplomatic missions, Vocal Jazz, Piece, Song, Patriotic Song, Carol, Cantata, Chinese
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2009 American Film Foundation
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We Want the Light
directed by Christopher Nupen, fl. 1967; conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy, 1937-; produced by Allegro Films, London, England; performed by Cologne Cathedral Children's Choir, Chorus of the Cologne Opera and Gürzenich Orchestra, Cologne, in We Want the Light (Guildford, England: Allegro Films, London, England, 2003), 1 hour
A television film by Christopher Nupen and his Allegro Films team which investigates the fruitful but complex relationship between the Jews and German music.
The title, We Want the Light!, is taken from a poem by a 12-year-old girl, Eva Pickova, written in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Her words also pr...
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directed by Christopher Nupen, fl. 1967; conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy, 1937-; produced by Allegro Films, London, England; performed by Cologne Cathedral Children's Choir, Chorus of the Cologne Opera and Gürzenich Orchestra, Cologne, in We Want the Light (Guildford, England: Allegro Films, London, England, 2003), 1 hour
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A television film by Christopher Nupen and his Allegro Films team which investigates the fruitful but complex relationship between the Jews and German music.
The title, We Want the Light!, is taken from a poem by a 12-year-old girl, Eva Pickova, written in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Her words also provide the climax of the film - in a setting for two choruses and orchestra by the emigé composer Franz Waxman, in his work The Song of...
A television film by Christopher Nupen and his Allegro Films team which investigates the fruitful but complex relationship between the Jews and German music.
The title, We Want the Light!, is taken from a poem by a 12-year-old girl, Eva Pickova, written in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Her words also provide the climax of the film - in a setting for two choruses and orchestra by the emigé composer Franz Waxman, in his work The Song of Terezin.
It is a film about many things. It is about freedom and captivity, about emancipation, acculturation and assimilation; it is about the roles played by Moses and Felix Mendelssohn in the dream of fruitful, unproblematic integration of the Jews into German society after their liberation from the ghettos; it is about Richard Wagner, his ferociously anti-Semitic essay Das Judenthum in der Musik (Judaism in Music) and his influence on the thinking of the Third Reich but, most of all, it is a film about how much music can mean to people, even in the direst of circumstances, or particularly in the direst of circumstances.
The film ends with the telling testimonies of three concentration camp survivors, chief among them Alice Sommer Herz who is now 104 years old and who played more than 100 concerts in the Theresienstadt camp.
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Field of Study
Classical Music
Content Type
Documentary
Performer / Ensemble
Cologne Cathedral Children's Choir, Chorus of the Cologne Opera, Gürzenich Orchestra, Cologne
Contributor
Vladimir Ashkenazy, 1937-, Allegro Films, London, England
Author / Creator
Christopher Nupen, fl. 1967, Cologne Cathedral Children's Choir, Chorus of the Cologne Opera, Gürzenich Orchestra, Cologne
Date Published / Released
2003
Publisher
Allegro Films, London, England
Person Discussed
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, 1925-, Jacques Stroumsa, 1913-, Alice Herz-Sommer, 1903-2014, Daniel Barenboim, 1942-, Norman Lebrecht, 1948-, Pinchas Zukerman, 1948-, Zubin Mehta, 1936-, Itzhak Perlman, 1945-, Vladimir Ashkenazy, 1937-, Evgeny Kissin, 1971-, Richard Wagner, 1813-1883, Felix Mendelssohn, 1809-1847
Topic / Theme
Internment camps, Antisemitism, Orchestras, Concerts, Nazism, Jewish people, Achumawi, Lebanese
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2004 by Allegro Films
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