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SQ14 .​.​. Qui Abitava (2020)

by Thomas Oboe Lee

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Having been in Rome many times since my Rome Prize Fellowship year 1986-87, I came across my first "Qui Abitava" plaque on via Garibaldi across from the Santa Maria dei Sette Dolori in Trastevere. After some research I discovered that these plaques, "stolpersteine," were created by a German artist, Gunter Demnig, and he personally installed all of them all over Italy and Europe.

The stories behind these plaques are so heartbreaking that I wanted to write a piece of music to commemorate their history. I chose six names from the many thousands of plaques that Gunther Demnig installed in Italy and they are presented in chronological order of their births.

Moisé Calimani, 1870-1944
Augusto Sperati, 1881-1944
Silvia Sermoneta, 1897-1944
Silvana Levi, 1920-1945
Claudio Piperno, 1923-1944
Luisa Levi, 1929-1945

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released May 11, 2021

Minami Yoshida, violin
Alison Kim, violin
Julian Seney, viola
Deok Yong Kim, cello

Recorded in the Fraser Studio @ WGBH
May 3, 2021
Antonio Oliart, audio engineer and editor

Music by Thomas Oboe Lee

© Departed Feathers Music, Inc. - BMI - 2020

Photo credit: Christian Michelides
Source: Wikimedia Commons

YouTube link: youtu.be/q-DUkc77QG0

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Thomas Oboe Lee Cambridge, Massachusetts

Thomas Oboe Lee was born in China in 1945. He lived in São Paulo, Brazil, for six years before coming to the United States in 1966. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, he studied composition at the New England Conservatory and Harvard University. He has been a member of the music faculty at Boston College since 1990. ... more

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