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- May 23, 1970
The Toronto Daily Star by Daniel Stoffman
"... among those in attendance will be Victor Kugler, the man
who hid the Franks for two years in his Amsterdam warehouse ..."
- May 26, 1970
The Edmonton Journal
- Oct. 1970 The Canadian Composer
- May 15, 1971
The Globe and Mail by Blaik Kirby
"... Oskar Morawetz will receive a $500 prize in a contest for the best
composition expressing Jewish culture."
- Apr. 7, 1972
The Canadian Jewish News by Mark Medicoff
- Apr. 1972
Toronto Symphony News by Alice Breglia
"... conveys a sombre, dissonant despair, heightened by the compositions stark
vocal line, and intensified by the powerful orchestral writing."
- Apr. 22, 1972 The New Yorker by Winthrop Sargeant
"Mr. Morawetz is a master of orchestration ... Morawetz composition has a
certain claim to distinction."
- Apr. 28, 1972 The Canadian Jewish News by Alan Marks
"... the strong vocal line is so compelling and absorbing ... the powerful,
often dissonant, orchestral score."
- June 1972 Hadassah Magazine by Hannah Grad Goodman
- July 1972 High Fidelity/musical america
"... vivid and marvelously expressive score ... some beautiful, lyric moments in
a quasi-atonal idiom."
- May 13, 1977 The Canadian Jewish News by Rick Kardonne
- Jan. 27, 1983
The Province by Ray Chatelin
- Jan. 31, 1983
The Province by Ray Chatelin
"The balance between hope, terror and anguish is superbly handled by Morawetz's
score"
- Jan. 31, 1983
Vancouver Sun by Lloyd Dykk
- Feb. 2, 1983
Vancouver Courier by Agnes Stevens
- Nov. 14, 1985
The Canadian Jewish News by Rick Kardonne
- Dec. 12, 1985
Winnipeg Free Press by Neil Harris
- Jan. 1, 1987 The Canadian Jewish News by Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut
- Jan. 1, 1987 The Canadian Jewish News by Rick Kardonne
- Jan. 15, 1987 The Globe and Mail by W. Gunther Plaut
- Jan. 15, 1987 Radio Guide
- Spring 1987 LifeStyles by Rick Kardonne
"His symphonic solo-operatic masterpiece ... is perhaps the most memorable epic
musical commemoration of the Holocaust ever written."
- May 17, 1990
The Mail-Star by Stephen Pederson
- May 26, 1991 The Calgary Herald
"Excepting only the In Memoriam Martin Luther King, Morawetz has written
nothing more noble or moving."
- Feb. 5, 1995 The Plain Dealer by Donald Rosenberg
- Feb. 10, 1995 The Plain Dealer by Donald Rosenberg
- Mar. 25, 1995 Winnipeg Free Press by James Manishen
"This is a powerful, moving work with the orchestra very active in supporting
and often creating the narrative."
- Dec. 7, 1995 The Toronto Star by William Littler
"It is music that has clearly stood the test of time."
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