Word: requiems
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...critics and rivals have already composed his requiem, claiming from the start that he was the symbol of the G.O.P.'s blind faith in primogeniture, a front runner who cannot win; that he's a mid-20th century man at the lip of the 21st century; that there is no room for a relic in a church that worships youth; that one can't be tongue-tied and taciturn in the age of confession. Sometimes the hard way builds muscles, sows compassion, tests courage. But sometimes the hard way is just the wrong...
Behind him is a desk with a Power Mac. On the wall behind hang various posters--a Glee Club advertisement for Brahms' Requiem, a print from the Museum of Fine Arts, a painting of a ballerina by Degas...
Nevertheless, we had good times. Mine included rehearsing the "Brahms Requiem" with the Radcliffe Choral Society, the Harvard Glee Club and the BSO; hanging out with some fairly pretentious literary types (among whom I include myself) in Eliot House getting high--I kid you not--on conversation and strong tea made in a samovar; attending a harmless little riot on Garden Street following an alleged robbery by Harvard boys on Radcliffe's dorms; helping to found Pro Tem, which was, as its Latin announced, an interim war-time magazine. Our advisor was Mark Schorer, then teaching English at Harvard...
...Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society (RCS) and the Harvard Radcliffe Collegium Musicum performed Johannes Brahms' "German Requiem" yesterday evening before a packed audience in Sanders Theatre...
...Brahms' requiem is such a beautiful piece of music and it's neat to see how well the music and the text fit together," Leung said...