Musical Fragments

Musical and Poetic Fragments

Texts reflect the culture and values of their eras by presenting and addressing perspectives of the composers on the issues of the context. The poem The End and the Beginning by Wislawa Szymborska and the Austrian film 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance by Michael Haneke accomplish this by exemplifying issues in 1990s society such as the increasing influence of media and the breakdown of interpersonal communication.

The End and the Beginning is a Polish poem by Wislawa Szymborska which captures a war's aftermath on its innocent citizens and how, in time, both the war and ...