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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...
...make a mint but because it dispenses with realism and aspires to animation, to the freedom of idea and image found in the best feature-length cartoons. Most directors think pictures have to be anchored in the narrowest form of reality: the one that Hollywood has presented since the dawn of sound 65 years ago. Burton, once an animator at Disney, understands that to go deeper, you must fly higher, to liberation from plot into poetry. Here he's done it. This Batman soars...
...just before more than 100 world leaders arrived for the grand finale of treaty signings, it seemed to dawn on participants from both rich and poor nations that the atmosphere had to change -- and fast. With the whole world watching a conference advertised as a last-chance meeting to save the planet, no one had anything to gain from abject failure...
...dawn of a major British industry: the pursuit and glorification of the Princess of Wales. Last week it reached its apogee with the publication in the Sunday Times of excerpts from a forthcoming book alleging that the prince had all but deserted his wife and that the despairing princess had tried to kill herself. Diana: Her True Story, by royals watcher Andrew Morton, is big business. The Sunday Times paid $462,500 for its excerpts...
...Babnik Princeton 2B Jen Fong Yale SS Stacey Johansen Brown 3B Leslie Silverman Princeton OF Nicole Deshamais Harvard OF Kelly Keefer Pennsylvania OF Laurie Sparling Yale P Christy Trexler Brown C Shelby Marshall Brown DP Sue Calder Brown Player of the Year: Leslie Silverman Rookie of the Year: Dawn Kulp, P-Penn WOMEN'S TENNIS Singles: 1. Erika deLone Harvard 70 pts. 2. Alexis Boss Dartmouth 52 pts. 3. Clindy Kuragami Yale 38 pts. 4. Janette Kizer Columbia 28 pts. 5. Aila Winkler Princeton 24 pts. 6. Barrie Bernstein Penn 11 pts. Doubles: 1. Erika deLone/Erika Elmuts 66 pts. 2.Alexis...