{"id":3500,"date":"2010-08-31T22:01:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T21:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3500"},"modified":"2010-08-31T22:45:03","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T21:45:03","slug":"everything-is-a-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3500","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Everything is a present&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost four years ago now, as a result of an interview in the &#8220;Guardian&#8221; newspaper, I did<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=251\"> a blog posting<\/a> about the utterly remarkable <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alice_Herz-Sommer\">Alice Herz-Sommer<\/a>. I mention her on this blog again now because I have just watched a recording of a BBC Four television documentary broadcast at the end of January and filmed when she was 98 and in conversation with Christopher Nupen.<\/p>\n<p>Holocaust survivor Alice Herz-Sommer tells how, in Terezin concentration camp where she was imprisoned, she played more  than 100 concerts, and credits music for saving her life during this  horrific experience.<\/p>\n<p>At the age of 104 she gained international fame  after a book based on her life, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Garden-Eden-Hell-Alice-Herz-Sommer\/dp\/0330451596\">&#8220;A Garden of Eden in Hell&#8221;<\/a>, became a  bestseller, and was also the star of prize-winning film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allegrofilms.com\/film\/We_Want_Light_Barenboim_Zukerman_Stroumsa_Kissin_Herz_Christopher_Nupen_music_documentary.php\">&#8220;We Want the  Light&#8221;<\/a>. Now aged 106, she is the second oldest person in London and continues to practice piano every day.<\/p>\n<p>In the BBC Four interview, she explains how, having survived the Holocaust, &#8220;Everything is a present&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost four years ago now, as a result of an interview in the &#8220;Guardian&#8221; newspaper, I did a blog posting about the utterly remarkable Alice Herz-Sommer. I mention her on this blog again now because I have just watched a recording of a BBC Four television documentary broadcast at the end of January and filmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3500"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3515,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions\/3515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}