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...UNLIKELIEST OF SYMPHONIC success stories. The composer: a little- known Polish avant-gardist named Henryk Gorecki. The music: his Symphony No. 3, subtitled Symphony of Sorrowful Songs -- a transcendental meditation on mortality and redemption for orchestra and soprano. In three slow, slow, very slow movements lasting nearly an hour, it speaks of bleak despair yet sings of sublime hope. Against all odds, this deeply felt, quasi-liturgical piece -- composed 17 years ago but newly recorded -- is captivating a huge public on both sides of the Atlantic, far bigger than most serious compositions ever reach...
...Nobody can answer the questions 'Why now? Why this piece?' " says Gorecki (pronounced Goor-et-ski), 59, outside his apartment in Katowice, a grimy industrial city 185 miles southwest of Warsaw, where he lives with his wife Jadwiga and their two grown children. "Perhaps people, especially young people, find something they need in this piece of music, something they are seeking...
...shall find: since its release last April, more than 200,000 copies of the Nonesuch CD, featuring soprano Dawn Upshaw and the London Sinfonietta conducted by David Zinman, have been sold worldwide, 140,000 of them in Britain. An average classical album usually sells around 15,000 copies; the Gorecki recently sold 14,000 in a single day in Britain...
Imagine a symphony at once brooding and luminous, tragic and triumphant, spun from a single unending melody in three long, seamless slow movements. Here it is, the "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" by HENRYK GORECKI, newly released on Elektra Nonesuch, with David Zinman conducting soprano Dawn Upshaw and the London Sinfonietta. The tenebrous string texture is punctuated by Upshaw's ethereally intoning a 15th century Polish lament and, later, a mother's dirge for her murdered son, whose words were inscribed in 1944 on the wall of a Gestapo prison. The result is chilling, moving, unique. With the collapse of communism...
Married. Gilda Gray, famed dancer (real name Mrs. Mary Gorecki, née Michalski, daughter of a Milwaukee alderman and former wife of a Cudahy, Wis., bartender), to Gaillard T. Boag, owner of a chain of Manhattan cabarets; in Chicago...