About 50 people in the conference hall listened carefully to the relaxing piano sound and clear soprano singing voice.
A song by Jewish German composer Friedrich Gernsheim (1839-1916) was performed in the middle of the seminar at the Eisenach in central Germany in early September. “Thank you, it was good.” When the people who finished listening to them, they smiled.
Pianist Christo Naoko Kato (43) and soprano Ana Gun (46). Since 2016, he has been introducing songs by Jewish composers throughout Germany under the name of “Gernsheim Duo”. The performance was forbidden by Nazi Germany, who promoted the massacre of the Jews (Holocaust), and the score was discarded, making it a “forgotten song”.
Naoko knows Gernsheim ...