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Seek and ye shall find: since its release last April, more than 200,000 copies of the Nonesuch CD, featuring soprano Dawn Upshaw and the London Sinfonietta conducted by David Zinman, have been sold worldwide, 140,000 of them in Britain. An average classical album usually sells around 15,000 copies; the Gorecki recently sold 14,000 in a single day in Britain...
Imagine a symphony at once brooding and luminous, tragic and triumphant, spun from a single unending melody in three long, seamless slow movements. Here it is, the "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" by HENRYK GORECKI, newly released on Elektra Nonesuch, with David Zinman conducting soprano Dawn Upshaw and the London Sinfonietta. The tenebrous string texture is punctuated by Upshaw's ethereally intoning a 15th century Polish lament and, later, a mother's dirge for her murdered son, whose words were inscribed in 1944 on the wall of a Gestapo prison. The result is chilling, moving, unique. With the collapse of communism...
...down orchestra assembled from the New York Philharmonic and the Juilliard School Orchestra, was peculiar because it broke off after the minuet. Then came two piano concertos, two piano solos, a serenade and four individual arias (all admirably performed by such soloists as pianist Jeffrey Kahane and soprano Dawn Upshaw) before the "Haffner" finale arrived as a kind of farewell...
Pledging AOA is an intense process. During the pledge period, the Sphinxmen study and are tested on Alpha history. With such illustrious members as Martin Luther King, Jr., W.E.B. DuBois, Jesse Owens, football hall of famers Gene Upshaw and Art Shell, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, New York Mayor David Dinkins, Rep. William Gray III (D--Pa.), Assistant Professor of Neurology and Harvard Foundation director Allen Counter and Senior Admissions Officer David Evans, AOA is a rich and diverse organization. As any Alpha man will tell you, Alpha history is Black history...