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Article: Companies Love `Miserere' // Chorus, Lyric Sing Gorecki's Praises
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- April 25, 1994
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The mighty forces of the Chicago Symphony Chorus and the Lyric
Opera of Chicago Chorus united for a soaring rendition of Henryk
Mikolaj Gorecki's "Miserere" Sunday in the celestial surroundings of
St. Mary of the Angels Church, 1850 N. Hermitage.
With Gorecki in attendance, the combined choruses (working
together for the first time) performed a deeply moving "Miserere,"
shaped with grace and care by conductor John Nelson.
Gorecki's unaccompanied choral work was composed in 1981,
commemorating the first police violence against the Solidarity
movement in Poland. The controversial work was not performed until
1987.
A stern and troubled piece, it grows slowly from a simple canon
sung by ...