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English Language : Classical Music : News : Summer 2002 
Wednesday 7 August 2002 : Hiroshima - Nagasaki - Images of horror but also of memory |
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Memories The article's title says it all. On the 6th and 9th of August two unearthly mega-flashes wrote their own history in the "horror hall of fame" of humanity with the darkest colors available. It is impossible to describe what exactly happened using human words, it is also impossible for all of us to forget whatever has to do with this brutal end of the - in a way or another - most dreadful war in our short human history. Let the music notes speak further - and especially the always touching Prelude opus 3 no. 2 of Sergey Rachmaninov ... Images of horror then ... ** ** On the 6th of August 1945 tens of thousands of people died as a result of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. After a couple of days, on the 9th of August, the second atomic bomb was dropped in Nagasaki with an analogous number of victims. Images of horror then ... |
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