Coates: "Hiroshima is Bombed" and "All These Dyings"
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Gloria Coates: "Hiroshima is Bombed" and "All These Dyings", Mvts VII and VIII from "The Force for Peace in War" (1973). Sigune von Osten, soprano; Musica-viva-ensemble Dresden, Jürgen Wirrmann, conductor. The image is a detail from "Leonardo's Balance of Nature" (1985) by Gloria Coates.
Aria: "All These Dyings"; thoughts of Marianne Moore from "In Distrust of Merits" (1942)
All the world is an orphan's home -
Can there never be peace
Without bitter sorrow?
Without plaintive cries from the dying,
The cries for help that never come?
Oh still and quiet form upon the
Ageless dust - ,
I cannot look upon thy face and yet
I must!
If all these great dyings,
The endless agonies and
Bleeding wounds and
Aching hearts can
Teach us how to live in peace
Then all these dyings,
All these sorrows were
Not in vain.
Kyle Gann writes about this work, "Coates wrote 'The Force for Peace in War' in 1972-3 while she was a tour guide for the U.S. Army, her first job in Munich - she took groups to castles, museums, and the concentration camp at Dachau. The last named location filled her with powerful emotions, but being an American in Germany she could not express her feelings unilaterally, so she combined German and English texts. The piece dates from the end of the Vietnam War, and it is a war protest, however generalized by being couched in terms of World War II....Early performances of 'The Force of Peace in War' drew protests not only because of residual feelings about reference to the Holocaust in Germany, but because of the use of poetry by women. In the 1980s, however, the work was increasingly sung in festivals and concerts associated with the peace movement - including a performance at the Dresden Festival while the Berlin Wall was coming down."
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Beautiful !
Thanks for the uploading
123must 1 month ago
Romanchistoso..It is a Flexaton...an electronic sort of wind machine...
dandan1019 5 months ago
@Romanchistoso Sounds like an electronic glitch in the recording. We were having a thunderstorm when I processed the video - that's my best guess.
MaxRidgway 6 months ago
What is the sound of the 1:48?
Romanchistoso 6 months ago
A daunting subject - very effectively handled.
Thank you for uploading this. ...
MB7classical 6 months ago