Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of North Texas, 2002. / Accompanied by 4 recitals, recorded June 17, 1996, June 23, 1997, Mar. 31, 2001, and Apr. 22, 2002. Includes bibliographical references (p. 46-48).

The aim of this study is to introduce the contemporary German composer, Xaver Paul Thoma, and his composition, Ich bin in Sehnsucht Eingehüllt on the poems of Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger. This study explores the possible reasons behind Thoma's decision to set the poems, as well as the circumstances and significance of the poets' life and poetry, made known through Thoma's composition. An analysis of each song is included, emphasizing especially the relationship between text and music.

Vedem is a name of a Czech magazine, which was secretely published in the Terezín Ghetto in 1942{--} 1944. It´s existence is connected with Valter Eisinger, a ghetto teacher, who looked after Jewish boys in so-called block L417 and who was always supporting their cultural development and their creativity. Boys at of fourteen to sixteen undertook the publishing and the magazine was coming out every Friday for almost two years. The main themes were different columns, poems and novels but also philosophical essays or critical articles. The most important persons, Petr Ginz, who was a magazines general editor, or poetist Hanuš Hachenburg, bouth died in 1944 in gas chambers. After the World War II the magazine was taken to Praque in May 1945 but the new government in Czechoslovakia rejected its publishing. The first shortend version came out in 80´s under the name ``We are children just the same: Vedem, the secret magazine of the boys of Terezín.``