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Museum For Silence: Pray – 75 Years After World War Ⅱ

  • © NHK – Japan Broadcasting Corporation

Mugonkan, a museum showing works by art students who perished in the war, is located in Nagano Prefecture. Seventy-five years after the end of World War II, rising and seasoned artists from Japan and abroad gathered at this special museum to perform masterpieces associated with war. The works include Black Angels, a masterpiece composed by George Crumb referring to the Vietnam War, and Quartet For The End of Time, which Olivier Messiaen composed and premiered while held in a prisoners’ camp. The music presents both rage against war and consolation. ar's many deaths.

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