The concert pianist talks about her extraordinary life.
The concert pianist Alice Herz Sommer has led an extraordinary life. She was born in Prague into a musical Jewish family, her mother played with Gustav Mahler as a child. Alice and her son Raphael, a gifted cellist, survived the holocaust and moved to Israel and then to London. Now one hundred and three years old, Alice continues to lead an extraordinarily active life, filled with her music and her studies, her friends and her family.
This week sees the publication in English of Alice’s biography ‘A Garden of Eden in Hell’. She has been telling more of her own story to Judi Herman and playing her favourite recordings, including of herself and Raphael.
‘A Garden of Eden in Hell’ by Alice Herz Sommer, published Macmillan Isbn 9780230528024. |
