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Klosinska/Kruszewski/Tesarowwicz/Kolberger/Malanowicz: Krzystof Penderecki

by C. Michael Bailey
February 23, 2004

I suspect that it is timely that the musical settings for the Gospel Passions be discussed in the wake of the approaching Season of Lent and the contemporaneous release of Mel Gibson’s controversial movie, The Passion of the Christ. For the uninitiated, the story of the torture and death of Jesus Christ has been an artistic subject since it occurred in ca. 30 A.C.E. While not strictly liturgical music pertaining to the Roman Catholic Mass or Prayers, it is nevertheless ...