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For the end of time : the story of the Messiaen quartet / by Rischin, Rebecca,1967-(CARDINAL)461362;
Includes discography (pages 135-138), bibliographical references (pages 139-159), and index.The quartet begins -- The quartet in prison -- Preparing the premiere -- Intermède -- The premiere -- The quartet free -- After the quartet -- Into eternity.
Subjects: Messiaen, Olivier, 1908-1992.; Prisoners of war as musicians; Prisoners of war as musicians; World War, 1939-1945; Music;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Defiant requiem [videorecording] by Neuwirth, Bebe.(CARDINAL)748879; Schnall, Peter.; Shultz, Doug.; Sidlin, Murry.; Defiant Requiem Foundation.; Partisan Pictures (Firm); PBS Distribution (Firm)(CARDINAL)309769; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)(CARDINAL)189964;
Director/writer, Doug Shultz ; editor, Mark Fason ; music director, Murry Sidlin.Narrated by Bebe Neuwirth.In the face of horrific living conditions, Jewish inmates of Terezin concentration camp--artists, musicians, poets and writers--fought back with art and music. Led by conductor Rafael Schächter, they re-imagined a Catholic liturgical work, Verdi's Requiem, as a condemnation of the Nazis. They performed for Nazi brass, singing what they dared not say. Six decades later, a new conductor and choir take Verdi's Requiem back to Terezin to bring the story of Schachter's artistic uprising back to life.MPAA rating: Not rated ; Rating: TVPG.DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen; 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Historical films.; Nonfiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Schächter, Raphael.; Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Prisoners of war as artists.; Prisoners of war as musicians.; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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German Camp Photo Album / by Thierbach, Adolf.;
A shipload of Germans, docked in New York Harbor in 1917, was among many foreigners trapped on American soil when the hostilities of World War I expanded to include the United States. . Among the many camps situated around the United States to hold these "enemy aliens", was the intenment camp at Hot Springs, North Carolina. This photo album chronicles their stay from the perspective of one of the detainees. In addition to scenes of the village of Hot Springs, there are many protraits and group photosespecially of the ship's musicians. One project the prisoners undertook was the construction of a miniature version of a German "Dorf" or village. These photographs are all that remains of that dorf as well as the hotel and spa that existed there at the time.
Subjects: Family histories.; Illustrated works.; Prisoners of war; Prisoners of war; Prisoners of war; Prisoners of war; Prisoners of war; The Great WarI; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Sisters under the rising sun / by Morris, Heather(Screenwriter),author.(CARDINAL)677873;
Includes bibliographical references (page 373).Set during World War II, Nora Chambers and Sister Nesta James flee Singapore on a merchant ship as the Japanese army take control, only to be captured and forced to survive in a Japanese POW camp.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Chambers, Norah; James, Nesta, Sister, 1903-1984; Musicians; Nurses; Female friendship; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Sisters under the rising sun / by Morris, Heather(Screenwriter),author.(CARDINAL)677873;
Includes bibliographical references (page 373)."In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend to Allied troops. But as Singapore falls to the Japanese she joins the terrified cargo of people, including the heartbroken Norah, crammed aboard the Vyner Brooke merchant ship. Only two days later, they are bombarded from the air off the coast of Indonesia, and in a matter of hours, the Vyner Brooke lies broken on the seabed. After surviving a brutal 24 hours in the sea, Nesta and Norah reach the beaches of a remote island, only to be captured by the Japanese and held in one of their notorious POW camps. The camps are places of starvation and brutality, where disease runs rampant. Sisters in arms, Norah and Nesta fight side by side every day, helping whoever they can, and discovering in themselves and each other extraordinary reserves of courage, resourcefulness and determination."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; War fiction.; Novels.; Chambers, Norah; James, Nesta, Sister, 1903-1984; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Prisoner-of-war camps; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Nurses; Women musicians; Female friendship; Prisoners of war; Musicians; Women's friendships.;
Available copies: 86 / Total copies: 103
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Sisters under the rising sun [large print] / by Morris, Heather(Screenwriter),author.(CARDINAL)677873;
Includes bibliographical references (page 457)."In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter, Sally, on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh-Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend to Allied troops. But as Singapore falls to the Japanese, she joins the terrified cargo of people, including the heartbroken Norah, crammed aboard the Vyner Brooke merchant ship. Only two days later, they are bombarded from the air off the coast of Indonesia, and in a matter of hours, the Vyner Brooke lies broken on the seabed. After surviving a brutal 24 hours in the sea, Nesta and Norah reach the beaches of a remote island, only to be captured by the Japanese and held in one of their notorious POW camps. The camps are places of starvation and brutality, where disease runs rampant. Sisters in arms, Norah and Nesta fight side by side every day, helping whoever they can, and discovering in themselves and each other extraordinary reserves of courage, resourcefulness, and determination."--
Subjects: Large print books.; War fiction.; Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Women prisoners of war; World War, 1939-1945; Prisoner-of-war camps; Female friendship; Women's friendships.;
Available copies: 40 / Total copies: 43
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The Violinist of Auschwitz : based on a true story, an absolutely heartbreaking and gripping World War II novel / by Midwood, Ellie,author.;
"When the head of the women's camp appoints Alma as the conductor of the orchestra, performing for prisoners trudging to work as well as the highest-ranking Nazis, Alma refuses: 'they can kill me but they won't make me play'. Yet she soon realizes the power this position offers: she can provide starving girls with extra rations and save many from the clutches of death. This is how Alma meets Miklos, a talented pianist. Surrounded by despair, they find happiness in joint rehearsals, secret notes, and concerts they give side by side--all the while praying that this will one day end. But in Auschwitz, the very air is tainted with loss, and tragedy is the only certainty... In such a hopeless place, can their love survive?"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Fiction.; Novels.; Biographical fiction.; Romance fiction.; Historical fiction.; Rosé, Alma; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jewish women in the Holocaust; Nazi concentration camp inmates as musicians; Pianists; Women violinists; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Sisters under the rising sun [sound recording] / by Morris, Heather(Screenwriter),author.(CARDINAL)677873; Carmichael, Laura,1986-narrator.(CARDINAL)788502;
Read by Laura Carmichael.In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter, Sally, on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend to Allied troops. But as Singapore falls to the Japanese she joins the terrified cargo of people, including the heartbroken Norah, crammed aboard the Vyner Brooke merchant ship. Only two days later, they are bombarded from the air off the coast of Indonesia, and in a matter of hours, the Vyner Brooke lies broken on the seabed. After surviving a brutal 24 hours in the sea, Nesta and Norah reach the beaches of a remote island, only to be captured by the Japanese and held in one of their notorious POW camps. The camps are places of starvation and brutality, where disease runs rampant. Sisters in arms, Norah and Nesta fight side by side every day, helping whoever they can, and discovering in themselves and each other extraordinary reserves of courage, resourcefulness and determination.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Audiobooks.; Novels.; Chambers, Norah; James, Nesta, Sister; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Female friendship; Nurses; Musicians; World War, 1939-1945; Prisoners-of-war camps; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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Half-blood blues. [large print] by Edugyan, Esi,author.(CARDINAL)466716;
Berlin, 1939. The Hot-Time Swingers, a popular German American jazz band, have been forbidden to play live because the Nazis have banned their 'degenerate music.' After escaping to Paris, where they meet Louis Armstrong, the band's brilliant young trumpet-player, Hieronymus Falk, is arrested in a café by the Gestapo. It is June 1940. He is never heard from again. He is twenty years old, a German citizen. And he is black. Berlin, 1992. Falk, now a jazz legend, is the subject of a celebratory documentary. Two of the original Hot-Time Swingers American band members, Sid Griffiths and Chip Jones, are invited to attend the film's premier in Berlin. As they return to the landscape of their past friendships, rivalries, loves and betrayals, Sid, the only witness to Falk's disappearance who has always refused to speak about what happened, is forced to break his silence. Sid recreates the lost world of Berlin's pre-war smoky bars, and the salons of Paris, telling his vibrant and suspenseful story in German American slang.
Subjects: Large print books.; Fiction.; Jazz musicians; Multiracial people; Ex-internment camp inmates; Ex-Nazi concentration camp inmates; Reunions; Prisoners of war;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Prize essays, 1941-1942, presented by the North Carolina Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy / by United Daughters of the Confederacy.North Carolina Division.(CARDINAL)289687;
Includes bibliographies at the end of most essays.North Carolina's contribution to the Confederacy / Mrs. R.E. Jones -- The history of the Confederate seal / Ella Reed Matthews -- Major General R.F. Hoke ... / Inez C. Boney -- Lenoir County's part in the war ... / Mrs. R.G. Creech -- Education in the South prior to the war ... / Mrs. R.E. Jones.Sidney Lanier, poet and musician / Daisy King Barker -- Kirk- Holden war / Mrs. Henry L. Stevens -- A Confederate veteran that I knew / Mrs. A.B. Douglas -- Orren Randolph Smith ... / Isobel Creech -- The North Carolina visit of the great Southerner, President George Washington, in 1791 / Ella Reed Matthews -- Zebulon Baird Vance as war governor / Mrs. Floyd M. Jennings.The South's peace propositions to the North / Mrs J.A. Yarbrough - - The true story of Andersonville Prison / Mrs. B. William Warren -- Blockade running on the Carolina coasts during the war between the states / Ella R. Matthews -- Literature of the ante-bellum South -- Margaret Sloane Leland --The part the women of the South played ... / Mrs. Stahlee Funderburk.Why the Daughters of the Confederacy as an organization should be perpetuated / Mrs. J.A. Yarbrough -- The military services of Colonel Nathan Bryan Whitfield ... / Isobel Creech -- The University of North Carolina during the period of 1860-1875 / Mrs. W.A. Bivins -- Outstanding North Carolina officers ... / Mrs. L.T. Penniman.
Subjects: North Caroliniana.; Old State Library Collection.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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