Gorecki's Symphony »
Posted By Spadecaller 1 year, 7 months ago in Arts & EntertainmentAugmented by the artwork of Van Gogh, Hugues Merle, and Francis Louis Mora, this Spadecaller video dramatizes the dominant theme of Gorecki's masterpiece, Symphony No. 3, Op 36 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs).
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BoxMonkey1 year, 7 months ago
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Good pick SC . It's way to hard to watch it all , having spoken with some survivors of the Death Camps . I knew in the opening words what was to happen . Very bleak and saddening . The seperation of families . I can hear the childern screaming as well as the gas chamber victims .
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Francisca1 year, 7 months ago
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Sadder, more powerful, more moving, even more beautiful than usual! In one word: Imposing...Music and imagery perfectly associated! So am I, during a bref instant I thought you were referring to your own son( I do hope Adam is doing well). I loved Dawn Upshaw's performance!
Thanks Spadecaller!
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icono11 year, 7 months ago
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Great great production.
The music as well as the message is absolutely haunting.
Whilst perusing the Collected Poems(1956-1998)(ECCO Paperback publish 2008) of the Polish writer Zbigniew Herbert I found this prose-poem titled "Mother":
"He fell from her lap like a ball of yarn. He unwound himself in a hurry and beat it into the distance. She held onto the beginning of life. She wound it on a finger hospitable as a ring; she wished to shelter it. He rolled down steep slopes, sometimes labored up mountains. He came back all tangled up and didn't say a word. He will never return to the sweet throne of her lap. Her outspread arms glow in the dark like an old town."
I think the last two sentences say it all. No matter how the child is lost.
Thanks for the invite spade.
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texangelwings1 year, 7 months ago
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The example of art and music at it's best. The results of the worst of humankind. Excellent choreography, that shines a light of hope that exists, by learning from the past!
I cried with this and cry whenever I read or watch a movie that covers the horrors of Hitler!
Thanks Spadecaller!
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ETproductions1 year, 7 months ago
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What consummate evil hate-filled men can bring forth.
My son will commission as an infantry officer this week. Knowing how pointless the Iraq war is, what it was really all about, I can only hope he is one of those who come back, and who come back whole.
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blinkers1 year, 7 months ago
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Spade, glad I had chance to comment on this thread, thanks indeed for the notice.
This is such a heavy and poignant theme and it's almost impossible to add anything to all the fine sentiments expressed above. But I'll try.
The somber (but beautiful) music and accompanying visual art & poetry exemplify just how high the human spirit can soar -- but at the same time, the dreadful images of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp portray the absolute lowest depths to which humans can sink. It is a memorable juxtaposition.
(The composer, Gorecki, would've been in his mid to late teens when this hell-hole was operating at full capacity --his birthplace was only 20 miles away from those awful gates).
Glad your son is back, and may you both stay well, always.
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