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Linda Tutas Haugen
Linda Tutas Haugen (Ephraim Bay Publishing)
It Is The Silence
Lyrical and emotionally intense; an excellent stand-alone piece from a larger work.
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This first movement from Anne Frank: A Living Voice (with string quartet) is lyrical and emotionally intense, and is an excellent stand-alone piece from the larger work.
Composer’s Notes
Commissioned by the San Francisco Girls Chorus, “It Is The Silence” portrays the first six months of Anne Frank hiding in an upstairs annex over a warehouse with her family, and one other family. It expresses the reality of living in hiding, and a world falling apart.
– Linda Tutas Haugen
Text
July 11, 1942
“It is the silence that frightens me so in the evening and at night… I can’t tell you how oppressive it is to never… go outdoors, I’m very afraid that we shall be discovered and shot… We have to whisper and tread lightly during the day, [or] the people in the warehouse might her us… Someone is calling me.”
January 13, 1943
“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of… day, helpless people are being dragged out of their homes… Families are torn apart; men, women, and children are separated… Everyone is scared… the entire world is at war, and the end is nowhere in sight… All we can do is wait… for it to end. Jews and Christians alike are waiting, the whole world is waiting, and many are waiting for death.”
– Text from the The Diary of Anne Frank
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