The Kennedy Center is empty and in peril. Its community is in anguish.

I’m thinking, for the moment, of a 1960 orchestral work called “Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima” by the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki. It is music pitched past pitch of grief, furious shrieks of anger, cacophonies of tone clusters and percussive noise that suggest in sound the intensity...

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