Episode description
We have a musical Times Will Tell this week with Lenka Lichtenberg, who talks about and shares songs from her new album “Thieves of Dreams: Songs of Theresienstadt's Secret Poetess.”
Lichtenberg is a classically trained musician who grew up in the Czech Republic. Before eventually settling in Canada, she moved around Europe and dipped her toes in a variety of musical genres.
Her eclectic musical background can be heard in her new project, which is based on poems that her grandmother Anna Hana Friesova wrote during the Holocaust -- before, during and after her years spent in Theresienstadt.
A few years ago, Lichtenberg came across her grandmother’s two notebooks of poems in Prague while cleaning out her recently deceased mother’s apartment. Sixteen of the poems were turned into songs, eight of which Lichtenberg composed and eight others that were commissioned from Czech and Canadian composers. The arrangements feature 19 recording artists from Canada, the Czech Republic and Germany. The album was recorded and produced by Lichtenberg at her Melody Meadows barn studio in eastern Ontario.
In this slightly longer episode this week, we learn about Lichtenberg and her family and hear excerpts from her remarkable album “Thieves of Dreams.”
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IMAGE: Musician Lenka Lichtenberg (Bo Huang)
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