Word: requiem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chorus master in the U.S., he was bossing his own 185-voice amateur Collegiate Chorale (sometimes broken down into smaller groups, e.g., the RCA Victor Chorale, the Columbia Choral) and preparing the choral parts for Toscanini's broadcasts of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Verdi's Falstaff, Requiem. But, as he diagnosed himself, "I don't handle the orchestra as well as the singers and I want to find out why." He promised himself a two-year breather to find the answer. Chasing off to Europe, he listened to a few concerts, then bounded back...
...months, he has found some of the answers-if not yet all the right ones. For the first of an ambitious series of seven concerts featuring choral "masterworks" since Bach, he presented his professional 40-voice Robert Shaw Chorale arranged behind a 45-piece orchestra. In the opening Mozart Requiem he proved that he now has one of the most highly trained and carefully blended chorus-and-orchestra combinations in the world, capable of far more clarity than a booming mass chorus and far more power than the usual smaller ensemble. In three intricate chansons by Debussy and three more...
...could rally. Though he never wrote another novel, and in fact did little of later importance, he found himself worshiped as the saint of the Risorgimento. Garibaldi and Cavour paid him homage. And at his death in 1873, Giuseppe Verdi set to work on his great memorial, the "Manzoni" Requiem, and in heartfelt words spoke for his countrymen: "With him ends the purest, holiest, and highest of our glories...
...remainder of the magazine offers a variety of forms of criticism, Cleanth Brooks' essay on "Light in August" being especially noteworthy. An extended review of "Requiem for a Nun" by Albert Guerard seems to me the best that has appeared. Along other things, Guerard's passing reference to "Temple Drake's tragedy (which is that she is Temple Drake)" is a classic thumbnail sketch of the bitch-heroine...
...Requiem for a Nun, by William Faulkner. The Nobel Prizewinner returns to the characters of Sanctuary (1931), reports them older, sadder, a little wiser, with an outside chance of saving their souls (TIME, Sept...