I m sure because it wished to kiss the world goodbye. But I have found my people here. And the white chestnut branches in the court. Only I never saw another butterfly. That butterfly was the last one.
Butterflies don t live in here, in the ghetto.
And if you miss the free 8 p.m. performance, you can journey to Los Angeles to see the work performed May 2 at the Stephen S. Wise Temple. Cutler has just learned that Chestnut Branches has won first prize in the choral category of the American Jewish Music Festival 2000. The piece is titled from a poem written in June 1942 by a young man named Pavel Friedmann in the Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt, a Czechoslovakian transit point to the Nazi death camps. The poem was found three years later, together with the sketches and diaries of other adults and Jewish children. By then, Friedmann had been deported to and killed at Auschwitz.