Franz Schubert
Series
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Christopher Nupen's film portreys Alice Sommer Herz, 106, the second oldest person in London, a woman with the true gift of forgiveness. A Nazi concentration camp prisoner for two years with her six-year-old son, suffering deaths of her mother and her husband in the camp, she also remembers playing more than 100 concerts in the camp and likens the experience, both for the performers and for the listeners, to being close to the divine. Alice is in...
3) Fantasia
Formats
Description
Combination of various classical compositions, ranging from Bach's Toccata and fugue in D minor to Schubert's Ave Maria, performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, and amply illustrated by Disney animation.