Word: requiems
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Vittorio wrote his first symphony as a memorial to Theodore Roosevelt. Last summer he completed a Requiem Mass for his mother. At its world premiere in Vienna last week, the performers alone would have made it notable. A chorus from the Society of the Friends of Music united with the Wiener Sängerknaben Choir to sing with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. As leading soprano, Dusolina Giannini soloed eloquently for her dead mother...
...Madrid, General Franco passed word from trench to trench to ask the Leftists for a brief truce during which he might bury his dead. The Leftists gave the cease-fire order and Franco's stretcher-bearers gathered up crumpled bodies while guns in other sectors boomed a gruesome requiem...
...American performances by the Boston Symphony Orchestra at this week's concerts. Berg, a disciple of the famous exiled German composer, Schoenberg, wrote this particular work while deeply affected by the death of one of his closest friends, Manon Gropius, the stepdaughter of Gustav Mahler. This concerto, while a requiem for her, is also the composer's swan-song for he died soon after. A great reputation has preceded this last effort of Berg, and it should prove significant...
Germany and Austria have pronounced Giannini a great dramatic artist. Toscanini chose her to sing in Falstaff at the Salzburg Festival last summer (TIME, Sept. 2), chose her again for his General Motors broadcast and for his forthcoming performance of the Verdi Requiem. But Father Giannini waited until last week to form his own opinion, then said: "I always think my Dusolina, she has a very nice voice. Now I believe she acts very good...
...funeral will be from his home Saturday morning, with a solemn high mass of requiem at St. Joseph's Church at 10 o'clock...