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Welcome to Wikipedia's portal for music. Music consists of sound heard over time. It is often used to evoke emotion in the listener. Music is often described as an art form that involves organized sounds and silence. It is considered by some cultures to be a language or an accompaniment to a dance and a means to communicate with spirits. Within the arts, music can be classified as a performing art, a fine art, and an auditory art form though the definitions of music vary according to culture and social context.
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Symphony No. 3, Op. 36, also known as the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (Polish: Symfonia pieśni żałosnych), is a symphony in three movements composed by Henryk Górecki in Katowice, Poland, between October and December 1976. The work is indicative of the transition between Górecki's dissonant earlier manner and his more tonal later style.
A solo soprano sings a different Polish text in each of the three movements. The first is a Silesian folk song, the second a message written on the wall of a Gestapo cell during World War II, and the third a 15th-century Polish lament of Mary, mother of Jesus. The first and third movements are written from the perspective of a parent who has lost a child, and the second movement from that of a child who has lost a parent. The dominant themes of the symphony are motherhood and separation through war. (More...)
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- Birthdays in Music: November 13
- Whoopi Goldberg, American actress, comedienne, and singer, turns 56.
- Ron Artest, American professional basketball player and rapper, turns 32.
- Janet Lawson, American R&B vocalist, turns 71.
- Idris Muhammad, American drummer, turns 72.
- John P. Hammond, American blues musician, turns 69.
- Ernst Reijseger, Danish cellist, turns 57.
- Timmy Thomas, American singer, turns 67.
- Kumi Koda, Japanese singer, turns 29.
- Ray Wylie Hubbard, American country music singer and songwriter, turns 65.
- Mary Lou Metzger, American singer on The Lawrence Welk Show, turns 61.
- Justine Washington, (a.k.a. Baby Washington) American soul music vocalist, turns 71.
- Bill Gibson, American percussionist and vocalist with Huey Lewis and the News, turns 60.
- Andrew Ranken, American drummer for The Pogues, turns 58.
- Nikolai Fraiture, Brit bassist with The Strokes, turns 32.
- Warren Bernhardt, American pianist, turns 73.
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