Word: penderecki
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...while the cellists slapped their instruments and scraped violently below the bridge with their bows, creating a tumult like the roar of giant wasps. Periodically, the screams would subside into desolate silence, fearfully anticipating the next frantic outburst. It was the Threnody written in 1960 by the Polish composer Penderecki as a memorial to the victims of Hiroshima, and it conjures vividly the sirens, the explosions, and the terrible agonies of the dying during the atomic blast...
Rounding out the program will be a work composed in 1960 by Penderecki called Threnody For The Victims Of Hiroshima and Brahms's Symphony...
Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra performs works of Brahms, Copland, and Penderecki. Tickets $2.00 ($1.50 for students) at Holyoke Center Ticket Office or at the door. Sanders...
...sound of the U.S. Bicentennial should be brighter, and it will certainly be native. Only a handful of European composers have been commissioned to write anniversary pieces. Most notable among them: Poland's Krzystof Penderecki, who is doing an opera based on Milton's Paradise Lost for Chicago's Lyric Opera. Right now there are several hundred American composers, some working up to 20 hours a day on music commissioned during and for the Bicentennial. The big names, like Aaron Copland, have been forced to turn down requests by the dozen. With millions available in grants...
...PENDERECKI: THE DEVILS OF LOUDUN (Philips, 2 LPs). Torture and execution of an innocent 17th century French priest, chillingly depicted by the Hieronymus Bosch of contemporary composers...