Penderecki, composer of the scores for The Exorcist, The Shining, and Wild at Heart, also wrote operas and choral works, and won multiple Grammys. "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 […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM on March 29, 2020