The Sound of Hope : Music As Solace, Resistance and Salvation During the Holocaust and World War II.

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: The Power of Music -- 1. The Rise of the Third Reich and Its Cultural Agenda -- 2. Alma Rosé and the Women's Orchestra at Auschwitz-Birkenau -- 3. Dr. Herbert Zipper: From Dachau to the World -- 4. Alice ◆Herz-Sommer and the Music in Terezín -- 5. Władysław Szpilman and the Warsaw Ghetto -- 6. Olivier Messiaen: A Composer Confronts the End of Time -- 7. Dmitri Shostakovich and the Musical Redemption of Leningrad -- 8. The Vocal Orchestra: Female POWs on Sumatra -- Epilogue: Out of the Ashes: The Israel Philharmonic and Violins of Hope -- Chapter Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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