1.0Robert G. Pattersonhttps://robertgpatterson.comRobert Pattersonhttps://robertgpatterson.com/author/rpatters1/Krzysztof Penderecki - Sextet (2000)rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="jI4DUb9kNK"><a href="https://robertgpatterson.com/krzysztof-penderecki-sextet-2000/">Krzysztof Penderecki – Sextet (2000)</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://robertgpatterson.com/krzysztof-penderecki-sextet-2000/embed/#?secret=jI4DUb9kNK" width="600" height="338" title="“Krzysztof Penderecki – Sextet (2000)” — Robert G. Patterson" data-secret="jI4DUb9kNK" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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Keening fiddles and shuddering thumping basses vaulted Krzysztof Penderecki to international acclaim with his shocking “Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima” from 1960. It is a fitting response to the slaughter of World War Two and the indignities of the Iron Curtain that colored his childhood and adolescence in Poland. The Atomic Age had arrived for music.