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Re: "After The Blast" Music
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Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 6 Jan 2000 09:48:36 -0800
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Robert Floyd ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>The first piece of music for a blasted world that comes to mind is
>Penderecki's "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima." This is the best
>evocation of a nuclear attack I've heard...it's quite eerie.

Although one should always recall its original title, which was Study No.1
or something similar.

How about the last movement of Vaughan Williams 6? Considered at the time
a portrait of post-nuclear desolation (although RVW denied it).

Deryk Barker
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