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according to the MacArthur Foundation The music is from Henryk Gorecki Symphony #3, the Symphony of Sorroful Songs, which was something of a "hit" about 15 years ago: a spare harmonic background casts a shadowy pall over the heartwrenching maternal words that were found scrawled on the wall of a Gestapo prison by an 18-year-old female inmate. The tone here turns religious, as well: "Little mother, do not weep, Purest Queen of Heaven, pray, do not abandon me, Hail Mary.... MORE
