Music+and+Shadows+-+Gorecki+Sorrowful+Symphony

=Broken Glass and Shattered Lives....= = "Forget You Not" =
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In this workshop senior students attempt to capture in shadows, the chilling message of the Holocaust.

= of the Liberation of Auschwitz =
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//Hail Mary.//
|| town close to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Gorecki said he wrote //The Sorrowful Symphony// (1977) as a witness and with a warning. The music is mournful and harrowing. It has simple lyrics partly based on words taken from a message etched by an 18 year old girl on the walls of a Gestapo jail. || media type="custom" key="5654773" If you have trouble viewing this video, type this address into your browser: [] || On November 9, 1938, triggered by the assassination of a German diplomat by a German-born Polish Jew, the Nazis began a reign of terror against the Jews. In two days, over 250 synagogues were burned, over 7,000 Jewish businesses were trashed and looted, dozens of Jewish people were killed, and Jewish cemeteries, hospitals, schools, and homes were looted while police and fire brigades stood by. This became known as //Kristallnacht//, the "Night of Broken Glass," for the shattered glass from the store windows that littered the streets. The unimaginable horror of the Holocaust was unreigned....
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 * Gorecki** was born in Poland in 1933. He lived in a small
 * [[image:gorecki.gif width="346" height="238"]] || == Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass ==

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