Word: requiems
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...club will join with Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra on three separate occasions, singing Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms in Boston and in Carnegie Hall in New York. They will also do Brahms's Requiem with the BSO and the Radcliffe Choral Society in the annual Pension Fund Concert in Symphony Hall...
...figures are facts-the famished, waxen cadavers of Buchenwald, Dachau and Belsen. The fury and shrieking violence which made the agonies of Guernica tolerable are here reduced to silence. For the man, the woman and the child this picture is a Pieta without grief, an entombment without mourners, a requiem without pomp...
While the revival of Salzburg's famous Mozart festival proved to be a pathetic imitation of prewar splendor, Switzerland's Semaines Musicales at Lucerne were entirely successful. The festival depended on atmosphere; two flawless performances of Mozart's Requiem Mass in the same candle-lit cathedral which had formerly resounded to Verdi's Requiem and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. And Lucerne itself, a small town of cobbled streets, hand painted wooden-covered bridges, and a lake on the edge of the alps, is no minor stage setting...
Verdi's Requiem Mass is seldom heard: its surcharged score demands too much verve and skill for all but the best orchestras and the most courageous conductors. But last week, in Fort Wayne, Ind., an amateur orchestra and chorus carried it off in fine style...
...still have plenty of flesh." When she made her debut in Yugoslavia at 19, she could sing only in Croatian. When Bruno Walter discovered her in Vienna, she had also learned to sing in German. Walter introduced her to Toscanini, who chose her to sing Verdi's Requiem at Salzburg in 1937. The Met brought her to the U.S. three months later. She knew neither Italian nor English. After ten harried weeks with an Italian tutor, she made her Met debut in Il Trovatore. Now she is the Met's first choice in such Italian operas as Aida...