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Iron & Coal: the story behind the unlikely Holocaust rock-opera

by David Smith In Washington

Composer and lyricist Jeremy Schonfeld has created a multimedia event to pay tribute to his father's journey in AuschwitzStories of the Holocaust have been told in memoirs, novels and films. But never before in the form of a multimedia rock opera."I didn't set out to create this piece that I liken to a cross between Bernstein's Mass and The Wall," says composer and lyricist Jeremy Schonfeld, the son of an Auschwitz c…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 5:36am on May 2, 2018