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Posted by: Spadecaller 3 months, 3 weeks ago

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Augmented 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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Spadecaller3 months, 3 weeks ago

Thanks to Quakpot's pesonal recommendation, I created this video to accompany Gorecki's powerful arrangement as performed by soprano Dawn Upshaw and conductor, David Zinman. Hope you enjoy!

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  quackpot3 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Beautiful job, Spadecaller
  ----Songs of sorrow
  ----Messages of hope for humanity
  This is only one, very well-selected part of the symphony. People who like this selection might wish to hear Gorecki's entire symphony.
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    puffin3 months, 3 weeks ago
    
    Sorry for the inadvertent neg.
    Beautiful post, Spade, and thanks quackpot - the music was absolutely beautiful.
    
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      BronxBomber3 months, 3 weeks ago
      
      Sad SC, but beautiful in all aspects nicely done. We must never forget,and never again... Thanx!
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    blinkers3 months, 3 weeks ago
    
    This is wonderful piece of music -- surprising the composer is not better known. (Wise recommendation to Spade, qp).
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rdy2rck3 months, 3 weeks ago

Excellant.Sad and beautiful symphony and a very excellant job spade of the imagery. It blends the truth, some disturbing imagery and words yet signs of hope.A Plus 5.
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TheRealizer3 months, 3 weeks ago

Awesome Spade, stirs up images of ... "mans inhumanity to man".
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SenorCoconut3 months, 3 weeks ago

The music and imagery is beautifully combined, thanks SC
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daducha3 months, 3 weeks ago

OMG SC that was really moving.
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engineer3 months, 3 weeks ago

Awesome!! Really a tearjerker. Thanks SC
People like hyperbola should see this
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Charlson3 months, 3 weeks ago

Haunting and poignant. Very moving.
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BoxMonkey3 months, 3 weeks ago

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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not2needy3 months, 3 weeks ago

More lovely than the last SC. thanks so much for sharing with us!
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Dicax_Maximus3 months, 3 weeks ago

I hate crying...........
11/10 SC !
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  Spadecaller3 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Sorry DM...
  
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mmrhe3 months, 3 weeks ago

Wow....Nicely Done. Excellent use of music, poetry and art!
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Francisca3 months, 3 weeks ago

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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Spadecaller3 months, 3 weeks ago

I appreciate your comments and concern, but I want you all to know that Adam (my son) is home safe and is no longer in Iraq.
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  texangelwings3 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Hey, SC, that is the best news I have heard all day! Tell your son that I am proud of him! Thanks for the news!
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  Francisca3 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  I would like to have such a good news every day, SC!! Thanks to God....
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  Shadowolf3 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  An old(sorta) swabbie just saluted your returned Veteran...
  ...this has to be your most potent artistic offering yet...
  Please convey my most grateful thanks for his service!!!
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icono13 months, 3 weeks ago

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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texangelwings3 months, 3 weeks ago

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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Spadecaller3 months, 3 weeks ago

BTW... Tell me; do you think that is the lamest photo propeller's art editor could have found for this article?
Sheesh...
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  BronxBomber3 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Under the circumstances?Mmm... yes!
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  blinkers3 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Absolutely true, Spade. "Inappropriate" about sums it up.
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Shadowolf3 months, 3 weeks ago

...their photo/story matching software HAS to be castoff drek from the DMV...
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uncle-dave3 months, 3 weeks ago

Nicely done SC. Glad your son is home and I hope has gets to stay home.
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ETproductions3 months, 3 weeks ago

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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  blinkers3 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  ET, let me echo your hopes for your son, sincerely. (I remember you mentioning that he was being sent to Iraq, a while ago).
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    ETproductions3 months, 3 weeks ago
    
    Thanks, blinkers. I don't yet know where he will be sent, but it doesn't take a crystal ball to form a good guess.
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      Spadecaller3 months, 3 weeks ago
      
      ET
      Keep us informed... anytime you need an ear,let me know. George Bush is annoying enough, but when I had my son over there and when Bush would open his stupid mouth about Iraq, it would drive me and my wife nuts. The good news is that we will be getting rid of Bush.
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        ETproductions3 months, 3 weeks ago
        
        We sure got a dose of that today, with the Smirking Chimp conflating negotiation with the elected leader of a sovereign state as supporting terrorists, and even with the Nazi appeasement of Nevile Chamberlain. Appeasement means giving gifts to try to stave off threats. Negotiation is NOT appeasement.
        You can negotiate along these lines. "If you step over this line, we will hit you with the full force of the US military might. However, if you instead do these things, we will help you build your economy and become an accepted member of the world community." That worked with Qaddafi and Kim Jong Il.
        Bush throws the word around without any clear understanding of what it means. All he knows is a good number of his sycophants haven't a clue what it means either. Every time I think he has hit the bottom of incompetence, he ups the ante on how bad a US President can be.
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        Radiofreeeuropa3 months, 3 weeks ago
        
        ET, I second the notion anytime you need an ear...
        The Bush -Corporate junta has done so much damage, I want to scream every time one of these Bushbots opens their mouth to spew idiocy here on Propeller. May it end quickly.
        Oh and as Americans lament the jobs that are not coming back, let us give a little thanks for one them....Republican President!
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blinkers3 months, 3 weeks ago

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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2sidestoeverything3 months, 3 weeks ago

Heartbreaking and beautiful just as life can be. thanks SC you brought about great refection for me today.
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