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2009., Penguin Group (Canada) Call No: Bio G6968k Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Extraordinary Canadians.
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-- Alice; the lady in number 6; music saved my life2014., General, Universal Call No: DVD Bio H582l Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Documentary tells the story of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest pianist and Holocaust survivor. She discusses the importance of music, laughter, and how to have an optimistic outlook on life. Herz (1903-2014) died at age 110, one week before the Oscar ceremony.
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By Marin, Revac2003., Douglas & McIntyre Call No: BLK Bio P4855m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2010., General, McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: QWF Bio G696l Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2015., Blurb Call No: Bio B813p Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This 2015 collection of poems, paintings and stories by Montreal art activist and cancer survivor, CHERYL BRAGANZA, will make a beautiful addition to your bedside or coffee table. Written in touching prose, her life story covering several continents, weaves delicate threads of color, music, poetry, human rights and survival together into a unique fabric guaranteed to inspire. A real collector's item.
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2003., Adult, TVA Films Call No: DVD Fic Pianist Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Roman Polanski's THE PIANIST is based on the memoirs of the talented pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrian Brody), a Polish Jew, who miraculously survived World War II. The first half of the film transports viewers to 1939 Poland, and brings it to life clearly and believably. Szpilman is a tall, handsome, winsome man who is revered for his piano performances on public radio. He lives with his family--an intelligent, loving, and spirited bunch--in an upscale flat in central Warsaw. Bombings have begun to torment the citizens of Warsaw, and step by step, the Nazis infiltrate, the Jews are branded and set apart from their neighbors, imprisoned in a ghetto, and slowly exterminated. The story is told through Szpilman's eyes, and thus carries as much confusion and fear as disgust and torment. Polanski paints Warsaw in bleak shades of gray and black, expressing the helplessness of the Jewish people and the cruelty of the Nazis with captivating photography. In the second half of the film, which takes place in the early 1940s, Szpilman is alone, having managed to avoid the trains to the death camps. His struggle to survive, with some help from non-Jews but mostly his own will to thrive, takes place in long, silent, languid stretches filled with the imagined piano music that inspires Szpilman to live. In a climactic scene of immense beauty and spine-tingling tension, Szpilman must actually perform for a German soldier who is inexplicably patrolling the near-deserted and utterly dilapidated Warsaw ghetto. THE PIANIST, in the subtlety of its sublime and heartbreaking tale, is carried by the intensely moving performance of Brody, whose transformation is truly unforgettable.