Word: requiems
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Wolff said that Mozart's "Requiem," for example, can be fully understood only when a music scholar knows of the events that affected Mozart at the time of composition. "Each little detail bolsters the aesthetic presence of the work," Wolff said...
Hidekatsu Tojo, 53, eldest grandson of Hideki Tojo, Japan's wartime Prime Minister, who was hanged for his crimes in 1948, is dealing with the war's legacy in a different way: by pursuing a singing career. His first record is a war requiem called Under the Southern Cross. "The reaction to Tojo's name has become quieter recently," he said. "Attitudes toward the war are changing...
...factories, boys have been raised by women and co-opted by a female view of masculinity. Later, the women's movement came along, creating an epidemic of what Bly calls "soft males," men who lacked fierceness, decisiveness and a clear sense of what being a man means. The requiem of the movement is that modern man feels an inexpressible sense of loss, but its battle cry is that boys will be boys, and that's a damn good thing...
...tacitly recognized that Iraq was not the most formidable foe -- closer to Grenada than to Nazi Germany in war-making savvy and casualties inflicted. But one suspects that this man's tone would be the same at the end of any war: a powerfully plainspoken mixture of triumph, requiem and relief...
...doing around the U.S. from week to week. Our critics raved about the program Night Music as "the best damn music show on television." But they warned watchers to skip the movie Wired in one terse comment: "The saddest thing about John Belushi's death might be this requiem...