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Title: Playing for Time by Fania Fenelon, Marcelle Routier ISBN: 0-8156-0494-7 Publisher: Syracuse University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The madness of the camps and the masters spotlighted
Comment: The story has been known for many years, but this book puts in focus, by a survivor, the insanity of a lesser known action then the case at Auschwitz. A well told personal experience by someone willing to put down for history something that needed to be said. No matter how many years I've studied, and the many survivors I've known who have shared fragments, this clear telling in print for generations to come is a treasure.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Perfect Book
Comment: This is an absolutely incredible book. An already powerful story it is taken to a new level by the constant reminder that this is first hand experience.
It is perfect for nearly anyone, the musician will relate to the music, the historian to the accuracy and the avid reader will simply latch on and be unable to let go.
It brought tears to my eyes.
Rating: 5
Summary: Playing for Time
Comment: Playing for Time, a grade-A book by Fania Fenelon, is a document not only about the Holocaust, but one that goes deeper: it shows how music brought redemption of spirit in the Hell of Hells. When Fania and her friend are brought to the death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, she is recognized by a girl in the camp's orchestra as a Parisian caberet singer. She is accepted in to the orchestra, where she is forced to sing the opera Madame Butterfly for the SS. Fania does not let the hardships of the camp take over her spirit, though. She uses music as a weapon, and, as an orchestrator as well as singer for the group, she orchestrates marches by Jews and anti-Nazis right under the noses of her captors, who never catch on. Fania's love of music allows her to survive Auschwitz, and when she is sent with the rest of the "Orchestra Girls" to Bergen-Belsen near the end of the war, her passion for life pulls her through a severe case of typhus. One day she learns that the Nazis are going to shoot the prisoners of Bergen-Belsen at 3:00 that afternoon. The English arrive at the camp at 11:00 that same morning. Fania just barely survived the war, and afterwards she returned to Paris and started again as a caberet singer. She died of cancer in her hometown in 1983. Playing for Time teaches us many things. It teaches us that the human spirit cannot be killed. It teaches us that good always wins over evil. And it teaches us that if you have a love, stick to it. One day it might just save your life.
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Title: The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany by Martin Goldsmith ISBN: 0471078646 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 17 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title:Bach In Auschwitz ASIN: 1572527811 Publisher: Winstar Home Entertainment Pub. Date: 21 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $19.98 |
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Title: Alma Rose: Vienna to Auschwitz by Richard Newman, Karen Kirtley, Reinhard G. Pauly ISBN: 1574670859 Publisher: Amadeus Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title:Playing for Time ASIN: 6301025571 Publisher: M.C.E.G./Virgin Visi Pub. Date: 22 June, 1988 List Price(USD): $3.00 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $3.00 |
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Title: Arthur Miller's Playing for Time by Arthur Miller ISBN: 087129267X Publisher: Dramatic Pub Co Pub. Date: 01 January, 1985 List Price(USD): $6.25 |
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