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...Mozart: Requiem Mass, K. 626 (University of Pennsylvania Choral Society with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Harl McDonald conducting; Victor: 12 sides). In 1791, as 35-year-old Mozart neared death in Vienna, a mysterious stranger offered him 50 ducats ($112.50) to write a Requiem. The stranger was an agent of one Count Franz von Walsegg, who wanted to pass the composition off as his own. Ill, impoverished Mozart accepted the commission, asked no questions, wrote his Requiem as if for himself. Death took him before the end; his pupils finished the manuscript. His last work, it is also...
...acquainted with Faure chiefly through his songs and the Requiem, but the Pelleas and Melisande suite is one of the most distinctive and beautiful of his works. The graciousness and reserve which characterize all his music might suggest a retiring personality in Faure himself, but in reality he was a potent force in the shaping of the nationalistic French school. As an influential figure in the various Parisian musical societies and in the Conservatoire, Faure was able to impress his distinctly French ideals on the young musicians of the time...
Faure is essentially a song-writer--in fact it has been said that all his best works are songs, whether written for voice or not. Nevertheless, the Requiem and Pelleas and Melisande are enough in themselves to prove Faure's effectiveness in music for orchestral and choral groups. It is true that he often gives himself over to lyricism at the expense of formal considerations, but his ingenuity in harmony and melody is often sufficient, especially in smaller works, to overbalance his looseness in structure...
Into the candlelit vastness of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, one day last week, drifted Protestants, Jews, agnostics, atheists and Communists as well as Roman Catholics, to attend a Solemn High Mass of Requiem for the soul of the late Heywood Broun. There were faces from Washington (Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter), from City Hall (Mayor LaGuardia), from Broadway (Tallulah Bankhead, George M. Cohan, George S. Kaufman, Irving Berlin), from newspaper row (pavement-pounding reporters along with Franklin P. Adams, Westbrook Pegler, Rollin Kirby, Roy W. Howard, Herbert Bayard Swope). Many friends of Heywood Broun, accustomed to going...
...festival designed to cabbage some of the Salzburg trade. Biggest tourist bait, as he was last summer, was Arturo Toscanini, whose European pond has shrunk rapidly in recent years. He was down for five concerts, including two performances of a work from which he generates much heat, the Verdi Requiem, to be done in Lucerne's old Jesuit Church. Four concerts were to be broadcast, and Toscanini's son-in-law, Vladimir Horowitz, able pianist, was scheduled to make one of his rare concert appearances under the maestro. The other festival conductors were also extra-Axis: England...