Music for poetry from behind bars. John McLeod and the setting to music of the concentration poem
This paper deals with the musical adaptation of poems related to concentration camps written by John McLeod: Chansons de la nuit et du brouillard and Three Poems of Irina Ratushinskaya. The article covers the intertextual and historical background of the two cycles and focuses on the philosophical implications stemming from the specific structuring of the musical phrase in both song cycles.