{"id":2310,"date":"2010-11-12T14:59:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T13:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=2310"},"modified":"2010-11-12T14:59:51","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T13:59:51","slug":"in-memoriam-henryk-gorecki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/11\/12\/in-memoriam-henryk-gorecki\/","title":{"rendered":"In memoriam: Henryk Gorecki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Alex Ross&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therestisnoise.com\/2010\/11\/for-henryk-g%C3%B3recki.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Rest is Noise<\/em><\/a>, an <a href=\"http:\/\/johnsonsrambler.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/12\/henryk-mikolaj-gorecki-1933-2010\/\" target=\"_blank\">obituary by <em>The Rambler<\/em>&#8216;s<em> <\/em>Tim Rutherford-Jones<\/a> for Henryk Gorecki, who has died at the age of seventy-six.<\/p>\n<p>Gorecki will perhaps be best remembered as the composer of the <em>Symphony of Sorrowful Songs<\/em> which leapt to fame in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Gorecki-Symphony-No-3-Sorrowful-Songs\/dp\/B000005J1C\/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1289570116&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">recording by the London Sinfonietta and the soprano Dawn Upshaw<\/a>, which is how I first came across it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='474' height='297' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qc_5svk4TaY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>His choral piece <em>Totus tuus <\/em>probably comes a close second.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='474' height='297' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GT-fogvEMTs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/11\/12\/in-memoriam-henryk-gorecki\/&amp;t=In memoriam: Henryk Gorecki' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=In memoriam: Henryk Gorecki%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/11\/12\/in-memoriam-henryk-gorecki\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/11\/12\/in-memoriam-henryk-gorecki\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/11\/12\/in-memoriam-henryk-gorecki\/&amp;title=In memoriam: Henryk Gorecki' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/11\/12\/in-memoriam-henryk-gorecki\/&amp;title=In memoriam: Henryk Gorecki' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Alex Ross&#8217; The Rest is Noise, an obituary by The Rambler&#8216;s Tim Rutherford-Jones for Henryk Gorecki, who has died at the age of seventy-six. Gorecki will perhaps be best remembered as the composer of the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs which leapt to fame in a recording by the London Sinfonietta and the soprano Dawn &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/11\/12\/in-memoriam-henryk-gorecki\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In memoriam: Henryk Gorecki<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1110,909],"tags":[1468],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2310"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2316,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions\/2316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}