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![]() Daniel Barenboim leads an orchestra of young Israeli and Palestinian musicians, seeking musical and political understanding.From Greece in the 1970s to Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay in our own time, music torture inflicts heavy metal or Sesame Street songs at earsplitting volume, twenty-four hours a day in solitary prison cells.The Civil Rights movement marches to “We Shall Overcome.”.An orchestra of prisoners plays at Theresienstadt, the “model” concentration camp.ĭuring the First and Second World Wars, peppy military anthems vie with stark Leftist protest songs, which give way to gentler music in the Sixties: “If I Had a Hammer,” “Give Peace a Chance.”.Hanns Eisler sets to bristling music Bertolt Brecht’s bitter 1939 poem for “those who come after.”.Ravel’s La Valse breaks into a dance of death after the First World War.Wagner’s Ring Cycle idealizes an imaginary world of Germanic “blood and soil,” later to be appropriated even more brazenly under National Socialism.Random cannonfire punctures the sound-space in Beethoven’s Wellington’s Victory.Thank God there’s no one left for me to lose –įor the echoing of songs. The souls of all my dears have flown to the stars.
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