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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...
...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...
Lowell House: Stephen Chan, Peter Flueckiger, Mark Moyar. Cabot House: Chih Cheung, Jason Fulman. Currier House: Carl Bergstrom, Jersey Chen, Frederick Tibayan, Jonathan Zinman. North House: David Carlton. Eliot House: Lawrence Carson, Jordan Ellenberg. Adams House: Weihsueh Chiu, David Friedman, John Weinstein. Mather House: Mark Kaplan, Kevin Wald. Leverett House: Richard Lin. Kirkland House: Edward Owen, Joshua Tucker, Gregory Weinhoff. Winthrop House: Scott Podolsky, Mark Saadeh...
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...
...governing board whose membership is not limited to students will help PBH foster better relations with city and faculty leaders and handle liabilty concerns more effectively, steering committee member Jon D.F. Zinman '93 said in an interview before the meeting...