Word: requiems
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...Orchestra," a vigorous movement, full of strongly dissonant counterpoint, was a little meaty, perhaps, for such a casual audience. This program culminates a year of cooperation between music at Harvard and the Boston Symphony Orchestra which has made possible performances of Beethoven's "Mass in D" and the Brahma "Requiem," and has added so much to the content of Boston's concert season...
...fame of Brahms as a symphonist has some what eclipsed his accomplishments as a choral composer, but the Requiem is firmly established as one of the few choral works which will receive regular and repeated performances for many years to come...
...Requiem the singers face a problem quite different from any they have met in a work of major proportions in recent years. It is probably harder to perform well than either the Beethoven Missa Solemnis or the Bach St. Matthew's Passion. Though the latter are physically more difficult, they are comparatively clear-cut in their problems of nuance and phrasing. They are not particularly intimate in their sentiments; that is, there is a certain broadness about them which lends itself to interpretation by groups almost as well as by individuals. In the Requiem, however, the expression is much more...
Gabriel Faure: Requiem (Chanteurs de Lyon and Trigintour Instrumental Lyonnais, E. Bourmauck, conducting, with Edouarde Commette, organist; Columbia: 10 sides). One of the profoundest works by a modern Frenchman. Beautifully performed...
Citizens of Moscow gathered in little knots on the sidewalk near Bogoyavlenie Church, gaping in amazement last week as Orthodox dignitaries blandly celebrated a requiem high mass for the late Rumanian Dowager Queen Marie. This was accompanied by loud, priestly chanting clearly audible some distance from the church. So far as the press could learn, there has been no such honoring of royalty in Moscow since the Revolution -yet last-week the famed Communist Union of Militant Atheists took it lying down. The Secret Police kept hands off, evidently on instructions. In his youth, Joseph Stalin studied for the Orthodox...