Nadine

About the Book

Nadine Douglas Lapisan, folk singer, composer, civil rights activist and a daughter of the union movement is about to leave New York and the orchestra of a renowned American conductor to join a major orchestra and its world-famous music director, Janar von Berkhardt and the Bavarian State Philharmonic, in Munich, Germany. The year is 1966. This is the beginning of her story.

About the Author

Paulina Kent Dennis has been involved in the theatrical arts for all of her life, starting out as a dancer, and becoming a choreographer and dance producer, which she continued to pursue to the mid-90s of the last century. She has also been heavily involved in musical theater and opera, having directed, designed, and/or produced a number of operas and musicals for various companies. She took part in the civil rights and the anti-war movements. She became an ordained minister in the Congregational tradition and has participated in a number of important ecumenical and interfaith conferences, with a special emphasis on Christian responsibility for the Shoah. She writes on religious, legal and social topics in addition to producing this work, of which ?Nadine? is the first part, and which was a way of creating an artistic world in which she could pose the important philosophical questions that concern all serious persons, artists or not.