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...right, that is his fault and joy too. Such was the case last week as Karajan brought off a bravura musical marathon in New York's Carnegie Hall. In four successive days he unraveled the musical and spiritual mysteries of Brahms' A German Requiem, the Beethoven Ninth Symphony, a double bill of the Mozart Requiem and Bruckner Te Deum and the Verdi Requiem Mass. Each of these is a work of immense proportions requiring time and money as well as skill to prepare. The average orchestra in the U.S. will usually do one such score a year...
Leverett House Music Society. F. John Adams conducts a choral sightreading of Mozart: Requiem and Mass in C minor, in the Junior Common Room at 4 p.m. Free...
Fauré: Requiem and Pavane (Elly Ameling, soprano; Bernard Kruysen, baritone; Daniel Chorzempa. organ; The Netherlands Radio Chorus; Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Jean Fournet, conductor; Philips; $7.98). Orchestra and chorus are fully integrated in a crystalline performance of this seven-part choral work by a romantic Frenchman who admired classic Greek proportion. The purity of Ameling's soprano makes the prayer Pie Jesu an expression of faith as well as of grief. The recorded sound suggests a church rather than a studio, which is particularly effective in the solemn Pavane...
...your requiem for Red Dye No. 2 [Feb. 2] you say: "Without it, instant chocolate pudding would be greenish, artificially flavored grape soda would look blue," etc. Perhaps banning of all such food-cosmetics would spur a more critical look at the oddly colored subtances that we accept as food...
...goes beyond Weill's elegant cynicism. The final chorale, describing death as part of life's "delight and woe," is sung to A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, while the orchestra counters with a cabaret tune of incredibly sweet pathos. From this juxtaposition emerges a requiem for a civilization literally going up in smoke, but the hymn's chords reassert the promise of redemptive life...