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Ending the Solemn Requiem Mass, Alexander Cardinal Kakowski, Archbishop of Warsaw, faced the nave, cried: "We herewith take a solemn oath to love our motherland as only you, Marshal Pilsudski, loved...
...Atlantic, crashed to his death while stunting over a Pilsudski memorial service, but of all the memorial services throughout the world, the most dramatic incident occurred in the town of Rowne on the Polish-Ukraine frontier. While bells tolled and villagers hurried to the church for a Requiem Mass, a shot was suddenly fired from the Russian side of the frontier. Polish guards tumbled out, rifles in hand. Up rode a long-coated Soviet cavalryman begging permission for his comrades to pay a last tribute to their old enemy. It was quickly granted. With clattering hoofs and lowered lances...
...will hear Brahms' three other great symphonies. They will also hear the three concertos played by Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir Horowitz and Ossip Gabrilowitsch, who have learned to play as Brahms intended, not with a show of fireworks, but as if their instruments belonged in the orchestra. The German Requiem will offer proof of Brahms' simplicity. Bach was a Lutheran but for his great mass he chose the Latin of the Catholic liturgy. The Protestant Brahms chose a homely, Biblical text and his words are German...
...hill near the town of McAdoo. There Governor-elect George H. Earle stood beside a freshly-turned grave. There, too, stood Senator-elect Joseph F. Guffey, Democratic State Chairman David Lawrence, onetime Commonwealth Secretary Richard J. Beamish. Presently 10,000 mourners gathered from nearby towns, began to chant the Requiem responses in a half-dozen tongues as three obscure men were laid to rest. The dead buried, a handful of women surged around Governor-elect Earle to scream in Italian: "If you don't send those murderers to the electric chair we'll kill them ourselves...
Salzburg bridges the glacial waters of the Salzach. sees its morning and evening suns at the rims of the Alps. In 1842 Salzburg held its first memorial in honor of its most famed native son. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart-a requiem mass for the soth anniversary of his death. A Mozart Theatre for his operas and a Mozarteum for his concerts were built later. After the War, a group of musicians decided to enlarge the Mozart festivals to include the works of other composers, converted the old Winter Riding School into the Festspielhaus, to seat 1,400. From its opening month...