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Ashes to Light: A Holocaust Childhood to a Life in Music (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350241602)
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xBorn into a Jewish family in Lvov, Poland in the early-1930s, Nelly Ben-Or was to experience, at a very young age, the trauma of the Holocaust. This narrative of her life's journey describes the survival of Nelly, her mother and her older sister. With help from family and friends, Nelly and her mother were smuggled out of the Ghetto in Lvov and escaped to Warsaw with false identity papers where they were under constant threat of discovery. Miraculously, they survived being taken on a train to Auschwitz, deported not, in fact, because they were Jews, but as citizens of Warsaw following the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis.
After the end of the war, Nelly's musical talent was free to flourish, at first in Poland and then in the recently-created State of Israel, where Nelly completed her musical studies as a scholarship student at the Music Academy in Jerusalem. Following her move to England she carried out a full concert career and also discovered the Alexander Technique for piano playing, which had a profound influence on her. Today Nelly Ben-Or is internationally regarded as the leading exponent of the application of principles of the Alexander Technique - she teaches in the keyboard department of London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama, runs Alexander Technique masterclasses and regularly gives talks about her Holocaust experience.
This unique memoir is testimony to an extraordinary life and illustrates the strength of the human condition when faced with adversity.
Author: Nelly Ben-Or Mbe
ISBN-10: 1350241601
ISBN-13: 9781350241602
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 02/25/2021
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.54d
After the end of the war, Nelly's musical talent was free to flourish, at first in Poland and then in the recently-created State of Israel, where Nelly completed her musical studies as a scholarship student at the Music Academy in Jerusalem. Following her move to England she carried out a full concert career and also discovered the Alexander Technique for piano playing, which had a profound influence on her. Today Nelly Ben-Or is internationally regarded as the leading exponent of the application of principles of the Alexander Technique - she teaches in the keyboard department of London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama, runs Alexander Technique masterclasses and regularly gives talks about her Holocaust experience.
This unique memoir is testimony to an extraordinary life and illustrates the strength of the human condition when faced with adversity.
Author: Nelly Ben-Or Mbe
ISBN-10: 1350241601
ISBN-13: 9781350241602
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 02/25/2021
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.54d
By Nelly Ben-Or Mbe
xNelly Ben-Or MBE is a distinguished pianist and piano teacher. Born in Poland, she survived the Holocaust and now lives in London. She teaches in the keyboard department at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She has broadcast frequent recitals for the BBC, performed at major concert venues in the UK and in many countries overseas. In 1963 she qualified as a teacher of the Alexander Technique - the first professional pianist to do so. She is now internationally-recognised as a leading exponent of the technique. She regularly gives masterclasses at music conservatoires, universities and at her own twice-yearly international courses in London. She regularly gives talks about her Holocaust experience, especially around Holocaust Memorial Day.
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