In Record Time: 'From Buchenwald to Carnegie Hall'

Jewish Exponent | December 26, 2002| | Copyright

Tilman, David F.
Jewish Exponent
12-26-2002
On the anniversary of Kristallnacht, I spent two inspiring hours with
Marian Filar, the 85-year-old internationally acclaimed concert pianist,
former chairman of the piano faculty at Temple University, and Holocaust
survivor.

Currently residing in Wyncote, Filar has co-authored his autobiography with
Columbia University English professor Charles Patterson. Together they have
produced a moving and exhilarating account of Filar's birth in Poland, the
early discovery of his musical gifts, his studies in Poland and Russia, his
dramatic return to Warsaw to be ...

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