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Thread #31321 Message #538388
Posted By: GUEST
30-Aug-01 - 04:27 PM
Thread Name: Powerful Songs That Make You Uneasy - 2
Subject: RE: Powerful Songs That Make You Uneasy - 2
Gorecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, 2nd movement. The sung text is directly taken from a prayer to the Virgin Mary written by a 18-year-old Polish girl on the wall of her 3-foot-square cell in a Gestapo prison. The clarity of the vocal over the sombre, murky background is symbolic of the single finger of light that entered the cell from above, penetrating the overwhelming darkness...