Is it ethical for anyone to use a horrible event to create something useful, even beautiful?
Not very tall, with a soft, whisper of a voice, Paul Schoenfield isn’t the sort one would estimate struggles with ethical questions like this. But, in the course of creating three separate pieces based on Holocaust-era poems and stories, the [...]
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Beauty from horror
Posted in Seattle, WA, tagged Holocaust, Music of Remembrance, Paul Schoenfield, Sound Magazine on June 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Jewish Classical Music Finds Advocates in the Northwest
Posted in Seattle, WA, tagged Arnold Schoenberg, David Krakauer, David Schiff, Ernst Bloch, Jewish, Milken Archive, Music of Remembrance, Paul Schoenfield, Seattle, Seattle Symphony on April 30, 2008 | No Comments »
When the Seattle Symphony, David Schiff, Miraim Fried and members of Seattle’s Jewish community gather on May 7, 2008 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of Israel, they won’t just be celebrating a country; they will be celebrating the Northwest’s unique connection to Jewish music. It is understandable to expect a city [...]
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