|aFilm portion originally produced for television broadcast in 2003
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|aDocumentary television programs
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|aIn English; with optional subtitles in English, French, German, and Spanish; Program notes in English, French, and German, inserted in container
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|aChinese title: 我們需要光
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|a公播版權: 金革科技公司
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|aDVD
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|aWriter, director, Christopher Nupen ; DVD producer, Ferenc van Damme
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|aThe Gurzenich Orchestra of Cologne, The Cologne Opera Chorus, The Cologne Cathedral Children's Choir, Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor
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|aThis is a DVD 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 essay The Jews in Music and his influence on the thinking of the Third Reich but, most of all, it is a DVD about how much music can mean to people, even in the direst of circumstances, or particularly in the direst circumstances.The title, We want the light, is taken from a poem by 12-year-old girl, Eva Pickova, written in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Her words provide both the title and the climax - in a setting for two choruses and orchestra by the American composer Franz Waxman, in this work The Song of Terezin.The DVD also contains music by Mahler, Bach, Schoenberg, Bruch, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Schubert, Bloch and Brahms.
This is a DVD about many things. It is about freedom and captinity, 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 thier liberation from the gherros;it is about Richard Wagner,his essay Das Judenthum in der Musik and his influence on the thinking of the Third Reich but,most of all. it is a DVD about how much music can mean to people, even in the direst of circumstances,or particularly in sirest circumstances.