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Following a surprisingly capable performance of Purcell's "Andante in F Sharp Minor" and a more than welcome ten minute respite, the Brahms Requiem, minus one chorus, was heard. The music was written from 1867 to '72 in memory of his mother's death. Brahms disliked religious dogmatism the religious mysticism so common to Bach. The Requiem is expressive in a manner peculiar to Brahms, and all its beauty and emotional intensity was seen in a few scattered passages of the performance, such as the solos by Miss Marjorie Rice and Paul Tibbetts. But in general the effect was tiring...
Both clubs teamed up on the final selection, which was two choruses from Brahm's "Requiem," numbers...
...changed his name from Rossler to get a hearing in his own country when Italian music was the rage, was one of these. He called himself a "godly Philistine," and had a lot more talent as a composer than subsequent history has given him credit for. His newly finished Requiem, in fact, was performed in Prague at Mozart's death in 1791. His Sinfonia in G, being played tonight, sounds like good early Mozart or late Haydn...
...radio requiem suave-spoken Masaryk stressed the point and jubilated: "So . . . everything that was not clear is finished. . . . The pre-Munich Republic will take its seat at the peace conference...
Such is social Washington, as reported by its society columnists. The flurry raised by blonde Society Reporter Hope Ridings Miller's requiem on "society as such" in the Washington Post (TIME, July 27) barely ruffled Washington's social waters. Washington newspapers continued to print two pages of society news each weekday and eight on Sunday; Columnist Miller herself, though she turned to plugging socialites' war activities, gave top-of-the-page billing to Evalyn McLean's party...