Streisand records song for Holocaust miniseries
Music legend Barbra Streisand has recorded a new song especially for the television series “The Tattooist of Auschwitz.”
Britain’s Sky and the United States’ Peacock announced on Wednesday that Streisand had recorded her first song ever for a TV series, “Love Will Survive,” which will play as the end title of the show, which debuts in Canada May 5 on Showcase and StackTV.
The music was written by Oscar winner Hans Zimmer with Emmy nominee Kara Talve and Grammy winner Walter Afanasieff, with lyrics by Grammy nominee Charlie Midnight. The song will be released globally by Columbia Records on April 25.
Zimmer and Talve also composed the original score for the six-episode miniseries.
“Because of the rise in antisemitism around the world today, I wanted to sing ‘Love Will Survive’ in the context of this series, as a way of remembering the six million souls who were lost less than 80 years ago,” Streisand said in the news release. “And also to say that even in the darkest of times, the power of love can triumph and endure.”
Claire Mundell, who executiveproduced the show, said that “Love Will Survive” “sums up the key message of the series: love will survive.
Recording the song with Barbra’s iconic vocals and William Ross conducting the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios was an unforgettable moment and a memory I will treasure forever.”
“The Tattooist of Auschwitz” is based on the bestselling 2018 novel by New Zealand writer Heather Morris.
It tells the story of Lali Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew who was deported to Auschwitz in 1942, where more than a million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.
Lali, played as a young man by Jonah Hauer-King (“World on Fire”) and as an older man by Harvey Keitel, survives, having been given the task of tattooing identification numbers on fellow prisoners’ arms.
He falls in love with one such prisoner, Gita (Anna Próchniak, “Baptiste”).
Lali shares his story some 60 years later, when he’s in his 80s, with writer Morris, played by Melanie Lynskey of “Yellowjackets.”
The series, directed by Tali Shalom-Ezer, also stars German actor Jonas Nay (“Line of Separation”) as Nazi SS officer Stefan Baretzki.