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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: What does the Pope have to do with music? posted by who cares? on April 5, 2005 at 15:12:48:
...and although I don't know the Henryk Gorecki's deepest, personal religious feelings, Poland was then and is now a "Catholic" country.The piece itself is elegiac, evocatively spiritual, incorporating both 15th century Polish (Catholic) prayers as well as modern texts which ostensibly refer to deaths in the Holocaust. However, given that the symphony was composed in 1976, after the first Gdansk protests but before the success of the Solidarity movement, it's not much of a stretch to assume the subtext refers to Poland herself under Soviet oppression.
Pope John Paul II was active in opposing the Soviet block in his native Poland and remained staunchly anti-totalitarian throughout his papacy.
So...who cares...even you should be able to connect these dots.
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Follow Ups
- It's "Gorecki"..Polish composer, Polish pope...(this is for the rest of us BTW) - Harmonia 11:35:47 04/06/05 (4)
- No offence meant, but I disagree. - sser2 16:40:03 04/06/05 (3)
- Re: No offence meant, but I disagree. - who cares? 20:36:41 04/06/05 (1)
- Mahler's Resurrection Symphony. - Harmonia 23:55:24 04/06/05 (0)
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