“I am very happy when I play . . . music is life”
Saul Dreier: formed a band when he was 88 and is looking forward to celebrating his 100th birthday in April. Photograph: Courtesy of sauldreier.com
When we spoke earlier this month, he had just performed in Miami and was preparing for three concerts on the west coast the following week. That’s remarkable enough until you hear the rest of his story. A Polish-born Holocaust survivor, he lost his parents and some 25 members of his extended family in concentration camps.
He worked in construction, married his wife Clara and became a father before the family relocated to Florida in 1980. “Coming to America changed my life. The United States was the best country for me,” he says, over the phone. “I am very happy when I play,” he explains. “Music is life.” And he is certainly making the most of his life. He has performed all over the US and in Canada, Poland, Germany, Israel, Brazil and Auschwitz – a camp he thought he was being sent to before he ended up in Mauthausen.
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