Penderecki
Americannoun
noun
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In interviews, he seemed more comfortable discussing his love of 20th-century composers like Morton Feldman and Krzysztof Penderecki than chatting about his rock-and-roll contemporaries.
From Washington Post • Jan. 30, 2023
Penderecki was one of the world’s most popular contemporary classical music composers whose works featured in Hollywood films like “The Shining” and “Shutter Island.”
From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2022
Krzysztof Penderecki, an award-winning conductor and one of the world’s most popular contemporary classical music composers, died at his home in Poland; he was 86.
From Washington Times • Mar. 29, 2021
But now it’s a barely recognizable goth-opera nightmare that samples “Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima” by Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2020
On the podium, Mr. Penderecki was a powerful, bearded figure who conducted with sweeping gestures befitting his music.
From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2020
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