Listen to the song cycle/theatre piece by English composer and violist Jocelyn Pook called Drawing Life: Remembering Terezín, a look at the “art camp” using archived voices, live singing and ensemble. Inspired by the drawings and artworks of the children interned in Terezín concentration camp, and using sound archives of recorded voices and train sounds, the work is a moving look at the so-called “art camp” with its poetry, music, writers, artists, and the children before those prisoners were moved on to the death camps. Building on these recorded voices, Pook layers the voices of singers Melanie Pappenheim and Lorin Sklamberg atop the archival source material and weaves in a mixed instrumental ensemble of strings, clarinet, accordion, and harp. Composer Jocelyn Pook joins us remotely to present portions of the piece for this New Sounds. - Caryn Havlik Referenced in the interview is this 2012 Soundcheck interview about the Nazi transition camp Terezín: Program #4534, With Jocelyn Pook (First Aired 9/9/2021) ARTIST: Steve Reich / Kronos QuartetWORK: Steve Reich: Different Trains, Before the War [1:30]RECORDING: Works 1965-1995SOURCE: Nonesuch #79451INFO: nonesuch.com ARTIST: Jocelyn Pook, Melanie Pappenheim, Lorin Sklamberg, et al.WORK: We rode and we rode [3:31]RECORDING: Drawing Life: Remembering TerezinSOURCE: musicglue.com/jocelyn-pookINFO: jmi.org.uk ARTIST: Jocelyn Pook, Melanie Pappenheim, Lorin Sklamberg, et al.WORK: Birdsong [6:16]RECORDING: Drawing Life: Remembering TerezinSOURCE: musicglue.com/jocelyn-pookINFO: jmi.org.uk ARTIST: Jocelyn Pook, Melanie Pappenheim, Lorin Sklamberg, et al.WORK: Catalogue of Drawings [4:35]RECORDING: Drawing Life: Remembering TerezinSOURCE: musicglue.com/jocelyn-pookINFO: jmi.org.uk ARTIST: Jocelyn Pook, Melanie Pappenheim, Lorin Sklamberg, et al.WORK: Packing [4:14]RECORDING: Drawing Life: Remembering TerezinSOURCE: musicglue.com/jocelyn-pookINFO: jmi.org.uk ARTIST: Jocelyn Pook, Melanie Pappenheim, Lorin Sklamberg, et al.WORK: Draw What You See [3:27]RECORDING: Drawing Life: Remembering TerezinSOURCE: musicglue.com/jocelyn-pookINFO: jmi.org.uk ARTIST: Jocelyn Pook, Melanie Pappenheim, Lorin Sklamberg, et al.WORK: A Long Walk [2:07]RECORDING: Drawing Life: Remembering TerezinSOURCE: musicglue.com/jocelyn-pookINFO: jmi.org.uk ARTIST: Jocelyn Pook, Melanie Pappenheim, Lorin Sklamberg, et al.WORK: Where Are We Going [3:33]RECORDING: Drawing Life: Remembering TerezinSOURCE: musicglue.com/jocelyn-pookINFO: jmi.org.uk ARTIST: Jocelyn Pook, Melanie Pappenheim, Lorin Sklamberg, et al.WORK: I'd Like To Go [3:01]RECORDING: Drawing Life: Remembering TerezinSOURCE: musicglue.com/jocelyn-pookINFO: jmi.org.uk
Listen to the song cycle/theatre piece by English composer and violist Jocelyn Pook called Drawing Life: Remembering Terezín, a look at the “art camp” using archived voices, live singing and ensemble.
Inspired by the drawings and artworks of the children interned in Terezín concentration camp, and using sound archives of recorded voices and train sounds, the work is a moving look at the so-called “art camp” with its poetry, music, writers, artists, and the children before those prisoners were moved on to the death camps. Building on these recorded voices, Pook layers the voices of singers Melanie Pappenheim and Lorin Sklamberg atop the archival source material and weaves in a mixed instrumental ensemble of strings, clarinet, accordion, and harp. Composer Jocelyn Pook joins us remotely to present portions of the piece for this New Sounds. - Caryn Havlik
Referenced in the interview is this 2012 Soundcheck interview about the Nazi transition camp Terezín:
Program #4534, With Jocelyn Pook (First Aired 9/9/2021)
ARTIST: Steve Reich / Kronos QuartetWORK: Steve Reich: Different Trains, Before the War [1:30]RECORDING: Works 1965-1995SOURCE: Nonesuch #79451INFO: nonesuch.com
ARTIST: Jocelyn Pook, Melanie Pappenheim, Lorin Sklamberg, et al.WORK: We rode and we rode [3:31]RECORDING: Drawing Life: Remembering TerezinSOURCE: musicglue.com/jocelyn-pookINFO: jmi.org.uk
ARTIST: Jocelyn Pook, Melanie Pappenheim, Lorin Sklamberg, et al.WORK: Birdsong [6:16]RECORDING: Drawing Life: Remembering TerezinSOURCE: musicglue.com/jocelyn-pookINFO: jmi.org.uk
ARTIST: Jocelyn Pook, Melanie Pappenheim, Lorin Sklamberg, et al.WORK: Catalogue of Drawings [4:35]RECORDING: Drawing Life: Remembering TerezinSOURCE: musicglue.com/jocelyn-pookINFO: jmi.org.uk
ARTIST: Jocelyn Pook, Melanie Pappenheim, Lorin Sklamberg, et al.WORK: Packing [4:14]RECORDING: Drawing Life: Remembering TerezinSOURCE: musicglue.com/jocelyn-pookINFO: jmi.org.uk
ARTIST: Jocelyn Pook, Melanie Pappenheim, Lorin Sklamberg, et al.WORK: Draw What You See [3:27]RECORDING: Drawing Life: Remembering TerezinSOURCE: musicglue.com/jocelyn-pookINFO: jmi.org.uk
ARTIST: Jocelyn Pook, Melanie Pappenheim, Lorin Sklamberg, et al.WORK: A Long Walk [2:07]RECORDING: Drawing Life: Remembering TerezinSOURCE: musicglue.com/jocelyn-pookINFO: jmi.org.uk
ARTIST: Jocelyn Pook, Melanie Pappenheim, Lorin Sklamberg, et al.WORK: Where Are We Going [3:33]RECORDING: Drawing Life: Remembering TerezinSOURCE: musicglue.com/jocelyn-pookINFO: jmi.org.uk
ARTIST: Jocelyn Pook, Melanie Pappenheim, Lorin Sklamberg, et al.WORK: I'd Like To Go [3:01]RECORDING: Drawing Life: Remembering TerezinSOURCE: musicglue.com/jocelyn-pookINFO: jmi.org.uk