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has gloss | eng: The Skies are Weeping is a cantata by composer Philip Munger. The cantata memorializes Rachel Corrie, an American member of the International Solidarity Movement killed in 2003 by a bulldozer operated by the Israel Defense Forces while she tried to prevent a house demolition in the southern Gaza Strip during the Second Intifada. The second movement also memorializes British photography student and ISM activist Tom Hurndall, who was shot in the head in the Gaza Strip by an IDF sniper on April 11, 2003 and died 9 months later without having regained consciousness in a coma state. |
lexicalization | eng: The Skies are Weeping |
instance of | c/2004 works |
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