MOR's For a Look or a Touch presents the world premiere of the MOR commission from hot young American opera composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer - "a sharply poignant, deeply affecting work" (Seattle Times). Based on the true story of two gay teenagers the Holocaust tore apart forever, the dramatic song cycle summons up both Berlin's wild cabaret night-life and brutal Nazi horrors, while making a desperate, poignant plea for remembrance.
Released on Naxos, the world's leading classical music label, MOR's recording also includes In Memoriam, by the Seattle Symphony's Gerard Schwarz - a beautifully meditative, elegiac piece for cello and string quartet, in honor of cellist David Tonkonogui (1958-2003).
And from acclaimed American art song composer Lori Laitman comes The Seed of Dream. The song cycle illuminates the grief, misery, and unbending resistance in each classical line of poetry by Abraham Sutzkever, written during his time in, and after his escape from, the Vilna Ghetto.
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