Here’s a clip from The Lady In Number 6: Music Saved My Life, a 2013 Oscar-winning documentary about Alice Herz Sommer (1903-2014) who, in 2013 was thought to be the world’s oldest pianist. She was also a Holocaust survivor. Here she describes her relationship with music, its beauty, it’s ability to give hope.
“Only when we are so old. Only! We are aware of the beauty of life.”
– Alice Herz Sommer
Beethoven Moonlight Sonata, Valentina Lisitsa:
Beethoven’s Pathetique, Daniel Barenboim:
Fanatic Cook 