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Composers

                                                                  

How could it be that a cultured people with such unadulterated music —

Bach, Beethoven, Brahms —

Could compose such dark, bloody symphonies, concertos,

 

Which disparate pickup orchestras, from all over Europe, played,

In Auschwitz, Sobibor, Treblinka,

As millions swooned to the strains of cacophonous evil?

 

How, indeed, when, in reality, so few knew how to read music,

Let alone play an instrument, let alone tune it,

Let alone tell a violin from a rifle, a piano from a gas chamber?

                           

 

 

 

                                               

 

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