THE DAVID SPEAR COLLECTION: VOLUME 1

DDRDG688 (Includes Digital Booklet)Click Here for CD Release Dragon’s Domain Records presents THE DAVID SPEAR COLLECTION, VOLUME 1 , featuring music composed and orchestrated by David Spear for three projects from his filmography. This album collects music from two historical documentaries, one historical docudrama, and an assortment of intimate duet performances intended to offer a musical portrait of composer David Spear, whose music underscores the universal struggle and transcendence of great tragedies and personal grief, as endured in the Civil War and the Holocaust. And, in so doing, uplifts and heals the resilient human spirit. THE COURAGE TO CARE is a 30-minute Holocaust documentary made in 1985; the film was nominated for an Oscar for best documentary short subject. The film was directed and produced Robert H. Gardner, with Richard Kaplan serving as an associate producer in the field shooting the testimonies; it was he who brought Spear into the production as composer, having