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...million in debt and whose management has proposed that its core group of 60 singers be reduced by one-third. In response, the choristers pulled out of a scheduled performance of Berlioz's The Capture of Troy, and instead came to St. Paul's Church to perform Verdi's Requiem. Before the performance David Dyer, a tenor, told the packed church that the proposed changes amounted to "cultural vandalism." In the U.K., where public funding for the arts tends to be lower than in other large European nations, ENO faces an old and difficult challenge: marrying creative freedom with commercial...
Marvin will conduct all three groups in a performance of the Brahms Requiem Saturday afternoon, followed by a banquet in Eliot House...
...meaning of a symbol, the proper definition of a monument, and the appropriate significance of a memorial. Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design Richard M. Sommer has called the entire process “a form of public therapy.” It is also a form of requiem, New York-style. It is loud and shrill and full of invective as well as praise...
Mann continued her exposition of American interracial strife in one of her most recent plays, Greensboro (A Requiem...
...Franzen's book were just an exercise in elegant melancholy, a requiem for reading, it would be handsome but unhelpful. It's not in his ambivalent nature to provide anything so clear-cut as answers (he's beautifully beset), but he frames the questions fully and with feeling. Do good books matter anymore? This one does. --By Richard Lacayo