Music of Remembrance: For a Look or a Touch
$12
- Jarrett Ott, baritone (Manfred Lewin)
- Zartouhi Dombourian-Eby, flute
- Laura DeLuca, clarinet
- Mikhail Shmidt, violin
- Walter Gray, cello
- Jessica Choe, piano
For a Look or a Touch was the first and remains the only major musical work to address the Nazi persecution of homosexuals. It tells the story of two idealistic young men whose lives and love were torn apart during the Third Reich. This production, directed by Erich Parce, features rising star baritone Jarrett Ott as Manfred Lewin and the amazing musical actor Curt Branom as Gad Beck. The work takes its title from a provision in the German penal code that made even an affectionate glance or caress a reason for suspicion and arrest. MOR commissioned and premiered For a Look or a Touch in 2007, and since then the work has traveled the world. This production, especially resonant in June during Pride Month, brings it back in an expanded version.