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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...
Silenced Women, a tribute to Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) and Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) at Sanders Theatre last Wednesday, treated the work of these two great Russian poets with complexity and power. Acclaimed English and Russian actresses Claire Bloom and Alla Demidova and soprano Anna Steiger all gave decidedly different interpretations of the poems, and for once, the contrast between East and West was constructive and original, highlighting the differences in dramatic interpretation between the two culture rather than forcing them to conform to one another...
...afternoon's Salutes to Children and Youth and the evening's Presidential Gala, could doze through all the dos. Clinton couldn't and wouldn't. A pretty fair performer himself, he knew that a speaker is only as good as his listeners. So he gave the victory fist to soprano (and fellow Arkansan) Barbara Hendricks. He misted up at Goldie Hawn's tale of her dead father. Jackson's song for AIDS victim Ryan White induced a dry cry in Clinton. "Mr. About-to-Be-President," as music mogul Quincy Jones addressed him, gave the thumbs-up to Bob Dylan...
With her second album, Fat City, Shawn Colvin earns entry into this august group. For a start, she has a gorgeous voice that ranges from the jazz phrasing of Anita O'Day to the girlish soprano of primal folkie Carolyn Hester. Like her idol Joni Mitchell, whose husband Larry Klein produced the album, Colvin paints delicate word landscapes of analysand wonderlands. Like Carpenter, who sings backup on the anthemic Climb On (A Back That's Strong), Colvin, 32, has paid beaucoup dues, working the Manhattan folk scene for more than a decade, in between gigs singing jingles and touring...
Bartoli comes from a musical family. Both parents sang at the Rome Opera -- her mother a lyric soprano, her father a dramatic tenor. Her mother Silvana is Cecilia's one and only voice teacher. "She initiated it so slowly and carefully that I wasn't aware of it at first," says the daughter, who also detoured through girlhood enthusiasms for flamenco dancing and the trombone. "The voice," Silvana instructed Cecilia, "must come out naturally, no rigidity or tension -- like yawning." The family is very close, and Cecilia credits her realistic view of the rarefied opera world to her parents' unawed...