1、90岁纳粹屠杀幸存者与马友友同台演出A 90-year-old Holocaust survivor will make his orchestral debut with renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma on Tuesday to benefit a foundation dedicated to preserving the work of artists and musicians killed by the Nazis.一名90岁的纳粹大屠杀幸存者当天在波士顿交响乐大厅和华裔大提琴家马友友同台演出，给特雷津音乐基金会筹集资金，该音乐会一直致力于保护在大屠杀中遇难的艺
2、术家和音乐家的作品。Ma and George Horner, a retired doctor who lives near Philadelphia, embraced warmly in a small room at Bostons Symphony Hall on Tuesday afternoon before a brief rehearsal.Ma thanked Horner for helping the Terezin Music Foundation, named for the town of Terezin, site of an unusual Jewish gh
3、etto（贫民区） in what was then German-occupied Czechoslovakia. Even amid death and hard labor, Nazi soldiers there allowed prisoners to stage performances.On Tuesday night, they will play music composed 70 years ago when Horner was incarcerated（监禁）.Its an extraordinary link to the past, said concert org
4、anizer Mark Ludwig, who leads the foundation.Horner played piano and accordion in the Terezin cabarets, including tunes written by fellow inmate Karel Svenk. On Tuesday, Horner will play two of Svenks works solo - a march and a lullaby（摇篮曲） - and then team up with Ma for a third piece called How Com
5、e the Black Man Sits in the Back of the Bus?Svenk did not survive the genocide. But his musical legacy has, due in part to a chance meeting of Ludwig, a scholar of Terezin composers, and Horner, who never forgot the songs that were written and played in captivity.Still, Ludwig found it hard to ask H
6、orner to perform pieces laden with such difficult memories.To ask somebody who . played this in the camps, thats asking a lot, said Ludwig.Yet Horner readily agreed to what he described as a noble mission. It didnt hurt that he would be sharing the stage with Ma - even if he thought Ludwig was jokin
7、g at first.I told him, Do you want me to swallow that one? Horner recalled with a laugh. I couldnt believe it because its a fantastic thing for me.Ma said before the performance that he hoped it will inspire people to a better future.I grew up with the words, never again, said Ma, who was born 10 ye
8、ars after the end of World War II revealed the scope of the Holocaust. It is kind of inconceivable that there are people who say the Holocaust didnt exist. George Horner is a living contradiction of what those people are saying.He said Horner was able to survive because he had music, because he had
9、friends, because the power of music could fill in the empty spaces.To me George Horner is a huge hero, and is a huge inspiration, Ma said. He is a witness to a window, and to a slice of history, that we never want to see again, and yet we keep seeing versions of that all over the world. I hope we ar
10、e inspired by that and we keep that memory forever.The program features additional performances by Ma and the Hawthorne String Quartet. In a statement, Ma said hes glad the foundation is giving voice through music to those whose voices have been tragically silenced.Horner was 21 when he was freed by
11、 Allied soldiers in 1945 after serving time at Terezin, Auschwitz and Buchenwald. His parents and sister perished in the camps.And though his back still bears the scars of a Nazi beating, he remains spry and seems much younger than his 90 years.When Horner found out about the duet（二重奏） with Ma, Ludwig said, He was so excited, to me he sounded like a teenager.
