Song of Survival: Bolero, Ravel, arr. Norah Chambers - UWF Concert Choir, Dr. Peter Steenblik

University of West Florida
UWF Singers - Concert Choir
Dr. Peter Steenblik, Director

Song of Survival collection (1943) - Margaret Dryburgh & Norah Chambers
Bolero
Maurice Ravel, arr. Norah Chambers (1905-1989)
UWF Rolfs Music Hall, Pensacola, FL
April 21, 2022
www.uwfsingers.com

For more information about the “vocal orchestra” and the women interned on the islands of Sumatra, Borneo, Timor, and Java, during WWII, please consider these resources:

Websites
• library.stanford.edu/blogs (search for Songs of Survival)
• www.singingtosurvive.com

Books
• Song of Survival: Women Interned (1995) by Helen Colijn (survivor) • Women Beyond the Wire (1982) by Lavinia Warner & John Sandiland • White Coolies: A Graphic Record of Survival in World War Two
(1954) by Betty Jeffrey (survivor diary)
• The Sound of Hope: Music as Solace, Resistance and Salvation During the Holocaust and World War II (2021) by Kellie D. Brown

Film & Television
• Song of Survival (2007) – documentary staring Helen Colijn
(survivor) and the Peninsula Women’s Chorus of Palo Alto
• Paradise Road (1997) – reenactment starring Glenn Close, Cate
Blanchett, and Frances McDormand
• Tenko (1981-85) – reenactment TV series produced by the BBC