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There are difficult emotions here. On the sweeping, sorrowful song Let Her Cry, Rucker sings about a relationship on the rocks, ruined by drugs and alcohol. On the mournful Not Even the Trees, grief hangs from his vocals like a shroud as he tells of going home after his mother...
There they go again. The Crimson staff, spouting their tired Marxist rhetoric, are once again lamenting the sorrowful state of some of the world's best-paid clerical and technical workers. So why are we not crying?
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...
The novel is narrated by Hang, a young woman whose past has predetermined the course of her life. Her past reaches back to the fanatical time of land reform in North Vietnam from 1953 to 1956, when her uncle, Chinh, denounced her father as a "filthy landlord." The sorrowful tale...
IT IS THE 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...