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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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To suggest that Gorecki's 3rd was composed to promote some political agenda has a touch of disrespect the music and the composer. If Gorecki did not say it himself, why should anyone else?
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National Public Radio or the PBS network has agreed to broadcast the concert from the Vactian at 10:20 p.m. Try to listen to this. I thought the Washington D.C. network gived up on classical music, several years ago, but looks like they have not. At about 10:49 PM, they now are doing Mahler's Second Symphony, what does that have to do with the memory of the dead Pope?
You know, the tenet that Christ's followers will rise with Him from the dead at the last judgement?
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