Monday, November 1, 2010

Music Is For Life



A charming trailer for a heart-warming new documentary. I hope we get to see it in Bathurst!

When are you too old enough to play and sing? Alice is 106 and is still playing, every morning and afternoon.

During the time she was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, she performed over 100 concerts for fellow inmates and played all of Chopin's Etudes from memory. (This camp was intended as a showpiece to the world, to deceive people into thinking that Jewish inmates of all concentration camps were being well-treated.)