Word: henryk
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...They argue in essence that the West is naive to believe the Russians can be anything but imperialists. NATO, they add, owes them protection as they struggle to develop democratic, free-market societies. "There is a firm assumption in American policy that reformers will finally win in Russia," says Henryk Szlajfer of the Polish Institute of International Affairs in Warsaw. "All that is nonsense." Says Jaromir Novotny, chief of foreign relations at the Czech Defense Ministry: "Yeltsin is not a democrat. He is a Russian feudal lord." Angry about NATO intransigence over the membership issue, Polish President Lech Walesa...
COMPOSER: HENRYK GORECKI...
This year's most unexpected hit, classical division, has been Henryk Gorecki's 1976 Symphony No. 3, the "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" -- a transcendentally dour, radiantly miserable minimalist cogitation on suffering and death for soprano and orchestra. Boosted by savvy marketing and extensive airplay, an Elektra Nonesuch recording of the symphony transformed an obscure Polish composer into a grand master...
...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...
This letter is not meant to be either negative or destructive to any person within the Harvard administration; on the contrary, it is meant to be positive and constructive by trying to identify and to remove once and for all the growing cancer on the body of Harvard. Henryk S. Ryniewicz