Tag: Tony Kushner
Maurice Sendak’s Legacy: Brundibar
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Brundibar.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/12/2006 Brundibar Transcript You’re hearing the moving lullaby from the children’s opera, Brundibar, which was written by Hans Krása in the late 1930s and performed fifty-five times in the Terezin concentration camp in 1943. It was sung by children who would soon perish in the […]
The Art of Maurice Sendak
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Art-of-Maurice-Sendak-.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/10/2004 Art of Maurice Sendak Transcript It’s Maurice Sendak’s birthday today, and the award-winning playright Tony Kushner, Sendak’s friend and collaborator (on the recent picture book, Brundibar), has offered a remarkable present for the occasion: The Art of Maurice Sendak, 1980 to the Present. This large, […]