Hi all. I saw that a documentary called "Bach in Auschwitz" will be on late tonight: Tuesday November 5 at 1am EST (Mudcat time) on a cable channel called Bravo. I don't get that channel, but wanted to point this out in case anyone wanted to see it, and was able to tell us what they learned.

A long time ago on the "Why We Sing" thread, I posted an article about a vocal orchestra that formed in a women's POW camp in Japan, and a guest asked, "Wasn't there an orchestra in a German concentration camp?" Nobody at the time seemed to know anything about it. It seems that the orchestra in Auschwitz wasn't underground like the one in Japan; rather it was one of the work assignments that a prisoner could be given. The musicians would play at officers' dinners and things like that, and would live longer than prisoners given more replaceable jobs.

Marion