MY RED BOOTS for mixed chorus: world premiere recording performed by members of the Rocky Mountain Chamber Choir - Virtual Singers. MY RED BOOTS is based on one of only several poems written by my mother, Jewish Holocaust survivor Rita Hoffman of bless...  moreMY RED BOOTS for mixed chorus: world premiere recording performed by members of the Rocky Mountain Chamber Choir - Virtual Singers. MY RED BOOTS is based on one of only several poems written by my mother, Jewish Holocaust survivor Rita Hoffman of blessed memory (1927–2018). Both she and my late father, Josef Hoffman, were Jewish Holocaust Survivors. My mother’s brief memoirs are housed at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. I have been trying to hear music for MY RED BOOTS for decades. It is fitting that my muse cooperated with me when I was seeking a text to set to music for the Rocky Mountain Chamber Choir’s 2024 call for scores, because global anti-Semitism has not been this rampant since the 1930s. During the events of October 7, 2023 in Israel, "Babies were taken from their mother's arms" just as in my mother's poem. Those with a conscience in the world must keep this evil from "happening again, and again, and again!" MY RED BOOTS My red boots and ruby earrings were s...    less

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Barnsley Youth Choir "Total Praise" by Richard Smallman conducted by Mat Wright, European Choir Games 2015, Gospel Section.