In Category A POLISH JOURNEY
A Polish Journey
The final movement of Henryk Górecki’s 1976 “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’ includes a lament to those who died in the struggle to re-establish the Polish Republic. While the overall piece evokes themes of maternal love, it closes with the words from a Silesian folk song about a mother looking for her son killed by Germans in the uprisings of the 1920’s:
…. Even if I weep
My old eyes away,
Or if my bitter tears
Were to make another River Oder,
They would not bring back
My son to life.….