Word: requiem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...performances going on; as usual, the smaller halls were filled with so many trios, quartets, pianists, choruses and sopranos that even the dutiful New York Times didn't try to cover them all. This week, with a Kirsten Flagstad Isolde and a Toscanini performance of Verdi's Requiem (see below), looked just as dazzling. In short, Manhattan was in midseason...
...dark grey dresses-they will gather in the Casa's open courtyard, lay flowers on the tomb where Verdi and his wife Giuseppina lie buried. At night, those still able to go to La Scala may sit in the royal box for a performance of Verdi's Requiem...
...check, for $8,000. And that was just the beginning. Disabled with an ailing knee since last fall, Toscanini had recovered enough last week to get down to serious rehearsal, with soloists, chorus and the NBC Symphony, for his first conducting in six months: an anniversary performance of the Requiem. Carnegie Hall (at a top of $25 a seat) was already almost sold out. That would add up to a lot of lire for the Casa Verdi...
...Symphony (Sat. 6 p.m., NBC). Toscanini directs Verdi's Requiem...
...conjunction with the Boston Symphony, the Glee Club will also put on the lit. Matthew Passion on March 23 and 24, and then will travel to Washington to entertain on Pan-American Day. Returning to Boston, they will present the Berlioz Requiem at the final Thursday night rehearsal at Symphony Hall...