      This short cantata is a powerful emotional crescendo both musically and emotionally.  There is a narrator, male chorus and orchestra.  The narrator begins with the description of a scene out of the holocaust.  The drama  grows musically to the male chorus singing a Hebrew prayer Shema Yisroel (Hear O Israel).  Notice the use of Sprechstimme used by the narrator.  You will hear mostly English and some Hebrew  and German texts.  This work is a twelve-tone composition and demonstrates a mastery of melodic control and musical line.