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...recording is the brainchild of Elektra Nonesuch senior vice president Robert Hurwitz, 43. Hurwitz first heard the symphony nearly a decade ago in one of the three previously recorded versions, but upon encountering it again at a London Sinfonietta program in 1989, he determined to record it with Upshaw and Zinman. Gorecki was present for the sessions in London in May 1991. "There is a brutal truth and honesty to this performance," says Hurwitz, "because the performers surrendered themselves to the music...
During its heyday, Executive Life swam with the sharks. When raider Charles Hurwitz took over San Francisco-based Pacific Lumber in 1986 with the help of $900 million in Drexel junk bonds, for example, First Executive Corporation, bought more than one-third of those bonds. Once in charge, Hurwitz terminated the pension plan and grabbed the $55 million worth of surplus pension funds to pay down part of his buyout debt. He then bought $38 million worth of Executive Life annuities to cover 2,500 people, thus shedding his obligations and saving himself the cost of the premiums...
When Martha Page went to work as a trainee for Chicago's Harris Trust, she soon learned that "all the women were required to type and the men were not." Recalls another former Harris employee, Fran Hurwitz, who worked 15 years as a clerk: "Harris was your basic boys' club." Both women left the bank during the mid-1970s, but last week they got a measure of satisfaction when Harris settled a twelve-year-old Government suit charging the bank with race and sex discrimination...
...think it's a great thing for Harvard to reach beyond its borders and help the community in the way CityStep goes into the school system," said Daniel L. Hurwitz '88, another member of On Thin...
...think it's a very positive contribution," said South African Law School student and alliance member llanaC. Hurwitz. "It serves a dual function: it serves both the Boston community and the South African Black community...