Popular Post sphinxsix Posted March 29, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted March 29, 2020 Polish composer and conductor Krzysztof Penderecki has died at the age of 86 after a long illness, his family announced this morning. He was a major figure in contemporary music whose compositions reached millions through celebrated film scores, which included for William Friedkin’s The Exorcist, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining and David Lynch’s Wild at Heart. Penderecki’s stated aim as an avant-gardist in the early 1960s was to “liberate sound beyond all tradition”, and his emotionally charged experimental 1960 work Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, for 52 strings, brought him to international attention and acclaim when he was only 26. Over a long career he has also written operas, choral works and concertos, and won multiple awards, including four Grammys, most recently for best choral performance in 2016. Penderecki had been tested for coronavirus after his carer was diagnosed with the illness, but the composer’s result was negative, his daughter Beata Penderecka said. (Guardian) christopher3393 and semente 1 1 Link to comment
coot Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 One of the greats of the contemporary composers and one of my most favorite. Rest In Peace. christopher3393 1 Link to comment
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