Word: requiems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Requiem for a Genius...
...Requiem for a Soldier...
...streaks on a book in Spanish binding he had only seen once and with the outlines of the foam raised by an oar in the Rio Negro the night before the Quebracho uprising." Borges contrasts this world of heightened perceptions with the real world of clumsy generalizations. In Deutsches Requiem, a commandant of a Nazi concentration camp becomes an example of an overthinking man. Stifling his feelings and perceptions, he justifies the slaughter of Jews because he believes that war purifies mankind. He rationalizes Nazi defeat by the same philosophy. "We taught the world violence and the faith...
...triumph of the evening was the Schutz work, a Requiem in German built on chorales and biblical verses. The piece's lines have exceedingly involved rhythms which continually vary and oppose each other, and Forbes caught these subtleties brilliantly. The voices did not sit upon each accent, but flowed or lilted in accord with the word's rhythm and meaning. The chorus's force gave the chorales the body which the Lassus lacked...
...became known in England through several concerts at Queen's Hall and Wigmore Hall, and broadcasts of old and new French music from London. In 1936, with her own singers from Paris, she gave the first public performance in London of one of Schutz's Passions and Faure's Requiem. The next year she became the first woman to conduct a whole program of the Royal Phil-harmonic Society...