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...obscure Polish composer scores a surprise...
Agnieszka Holland, the Polish woman who made Olivier Olivier in France, has obviously not seen a lot of American TV. So she is free to imagine the force of domestic disaster as centrifugal, not centripetal. The result is an awkward film that moves one not toward pity but toward dark reflection on the unbearable chaos that always shadows -- as we tend to forget -- ordinary being...
...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...
...symphony struck such a resonant chord? The texts, which include a 15th century monastic lament, a mournful folk song about the death of a child and, most movingly, a brief prayer to the Virgin inscribed on the wall of a Gestapo prison by an 18-year-old Polish girl, evoke a sunless world of pain and suffering. The ineffable music, which unfolds seamlessly from small, minimalist melodic motifs, evolves into a soaring Brucknerian cathedral. Hardly the stuff of which gold records are made...
Therefore I would like to, using your publication as the means, express my personal and the Harvard Polish Society's highest gratitude to the Harvard Foundation for their support for our as well as other ethnic organizations at Harvard. Marek Kordylewski '93 President Harvard Polish Society...