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Oh WOW!
That’s…something else entirely.
So violent! Yet also subtle and quiet.
Yields immediate visceral reactions.
The entire instrument is so thoroughly explored.
How does one remember such a piece?
Or keep the original bow and strings to the end?
Striking. Marvelous. Beautiful. I’m all for it.

An amendment of something conjured by it:

It’s not safe out here. It’s wonderous; with treasures vibrations to satiate desires both subtle and gross, but it’s not for the timid.

TIL. Thank you!

but the piece that truly brought him to international attention was Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima (see threnody and atomic bombing of Hiroshima), written in 1960 for 52 string instruments. In it, he makes use of extended instrumental techniques (for example, playing behind the bridge, bowing on the tailpiece).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Penderecki

Username checks out.

https://www.audubon.org/news/the-klamath-basins-water-crisis-growing-disaster-waterfowl

https://www.opb.org/article/2024/10/15/klamath-basin-oregon-refuge-botulism-outbreak-wildlife-rehabilators-treat-birds/

Another case where wetlands should have remained rather than trying to ‘reclaim’ them for homesteading.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/you-could-be-identified-through-genealogy-databaseeven-if-your-dna-hasnt-been-tested-180970532/

Perhaps. I was thinking in the last 1-2 years. Maybe it was that long ago.

Who was the other famous old country singer who died recently? I want to say he even resembled Kristofferson a bit.

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