Word: requiem
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...more, he only hit the big day in January, which means—fortunately for audiences everywhere—that there’s still plenty to come. The festivities continue with the Harvard University Choir’s performance of Mozart’s “Requiem,” his final and unfinished work. The piece captures the composer at the height of his creative trajectory, and encompasses desperate, fiery emotions not evident in many of his other compositions. Even before the 1984 release of the blockbuster film “Amadeus,” for which...
...Montreal “Requiem of O.M.M.” Dir. Kirby McClure and Julia Grigorian Of Montreal’s psychedelic pop songs have always seemed to require psychotropic drugs for full enjoyment, and the same goes for their latest video, “Requiem for O.M.M.2.” Hallucinogenic drugs are necessary, despite the fact that the saccharine songs of the Athens, GA, indie-dance outfit sometimes seem geared toward six-year-olds, or at least those who are six at heart. And it’s not a bad commercial move either. Since Of Montreal?...
...intransigence of death, the possibility of time travel and a cosmos full of parallel lives. One has its origins in a failed Hollywood A-list movie; the other comes from the alt-auteur world of the small comix press. The first, The Fountain, written by filmmaker Darren Aronofsky (?, Requiem for a Dream) and drawn by Kent Williams, arrived in late 2005 from Vertigo/DC in the form of a high-end, full color hardcover graphic novel (166 pages) with a price ($40) that reflects its luxurious production. The other book, Ganges #1 by Kevin Huizenga, co-published by Fantagraphics Books...
Under the wide and starry sky,/ Dig the grave and let me lie..." You know you're on a true literary pilgrimage when your taxi driver can recite Robert Louis Stevenson's Requiem in the time it takes to wind five kilometers up the hill from Apia to the old plantation home of Vailima. It was here that the Scottish writer (1850-1894) - who blended boy's-own adventure with psychological insight and a sense of history in such tales as Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and The Body Snatchers - came...
...have revived a less familiar Pirandello: the compulsive storyteller, spinning tales about his native Sicily, its stern landscape and elemental passions. Kaos dramatizes four of the short fictions Pirandello collected in his 15-volume A Story for Every Day in the Year. Three (The Other Son, The Jar and Requiem) are just fine, anecdotes about longing and power in which the inexplicable nuzzles up against the predictable. A fourth (Moon Sickness) and an epilogue, which lures the author into his own imaginary world, are small miracles of narrative. They raise the folkloric to folk artistry...