'The Pianist of Willesden Lane'

In 2002, storyteller and concert pianist Mona Golabek published The Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond the Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love, and Survival. Cowritten with Lee Cohen, the book tells the story of Golabek’s mother, a musical prodigy who escaped Nazi-controlled Austria as a young teen via Kindertransport, the children’s train that carried European kids to safety in England. Golabek brings the memoir to life in The Pianist of Willesden Lane, a Hershey Felder Presents production in which the Grammy Award-nominated instrumentalist performs works by composers such as Claude Debussy and Ludwig van Beethoven while sharing her mother’s tale of perseverance.