Word: requiems
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Webber plucks the emotional string of the audience throughout his musical. The audience mourns Evita's death by way of the nauseatingly high-pitched chorus of "Requiem Evita" (which sounds amazingly like Webber's own Requiem). We empathize with Evita's triumphs as she passes through the turbulent trials of her life. In a strange sense, we even admire Evita's fortitude despite our disgust at her betrayals of Argentina. This duality of feeling toward Evita is precisely what Webber wants us to experience...
...Mozart's second and last effort in the serious vein, La Clemenza di Tito. The renewal of these two pieces, which circumscribe Mozart's years of maturity and his best musical output, has been the major revelation in the months after the festivities anticlimaxed with innumerable performances of the Requiem last November...
According to Hogwood, the one bright spot in last year's festivities was the public scrutiny of the composition Mozart's Requiem, which he left unfinished at his death November 7, 1791. Hogwood said the inquiry involved general listeners in "specialist concerns," including attempts to complete and reconstruct the requiem...
Boston Symphony Orchestra and Tanglewood Festival Chorus--perform Verdi's Requiem. Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave., Boston. $19-$52.50. Thursday, Feb. 13, 8 p.m. Call 266-1492 for tickets...
This is an expert coroner's report that could have been a requiem for a bloated industry. But in its malicious detail, the book verifies a Hollywood truism: not that it's a tragedy when a movie goes wrong, but that it's a miracle when anything goes right...