Art & Design – 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).
At first, I thought you were referring to just your own son, and that he had gotten killed in the war, but then, I realized you were referring to all our sons who die in senseless wars or by genocide, the overwhelming loss magnified by never really knowing where your child is laid to rest. The torment and frightening thought of such for a mother must be unbearable, and as a father, I felt the agony of despair wrought from viewing the video. How much more for a mother? Yet, in the midst of despair, arising from the song was a certain element of hope. A timely piece, SC. Thanks for sharing.
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.
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.
ET, let me echo your hopes for your son, sincerely. (I remember you mentioning that he was being sent to Iraq, a while 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.
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.
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.
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!
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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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!
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.
Sorry for the inadvertent neg.
Beautiful post, Spade, and thanks quackpot - the music was absolutely beautiful.
Sad SC, but beautiful in all aspects nicely done. We must never forget,and never again... Thanx!
This is wonderful piece of music -- surprising the composer is not better known. (Wise recommendation to Spade, qp).