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...Requiem for a show-business heavyweight...
...John Adams, director of the Glee Club asked Levin to complete an unfinished fugue from Mozart's Requiem mass. This led Levin to complete two other of Mozart's 50 incomplete pieces for his senior thesis in music...
Since then, Levin has completed many more of Mozart's incomplete works, including the Requiem mass, which Mozart died writing...
...SOPHIE MUTTER? She used to be just another pretty face, riding to glory aboard great war- horses named Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Brahms. On her latest Deutsche Grammophon album, though, she harnesses two modern violin concertos and tames them both. In Alban Berg's ineffable 1935 two-movement concerto, a requiem for the daughter of Alma Mahler Gropius, Mutter evokes the music's intense, passionate suffering. In Wolfgang Rihm's gorgeous Time Chant, written for her last year, Mutter's splendid fiddle soars ethereally over the Chicago Symphony led by James Levine. Can it be that, as the millennium dawns, 20th...
...final poem, the lengthy "Requiem" touched on the title of the evening's performance. Bloom told the audience that this moving poem was preserved in the memory of women for 25 years before being written down. "Requiem" spoke of the silence of the hundreds of women waiting in line behind closed gates to see their sons. That it was read last Wednesday was clear evidence that the voices of silenced women were finally ringing...