Issue 2005 November 19
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THE HOLOCAUST: ‘Auschwitz’ and Górecki: reflections on evil and hope
Sometimes music can express truths that documentaries and films cannot convey, writes Pat Byrne.Music from Henryk Górecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs formed part of the theme music of the recent six-part BBC television documentary series, Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State.What this recently screened documentary shows as cold, calculating, industrial-scale evil, difficult for the human mind to comprehend, Górecki’s symphony drives like an emotional…
