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Mark Kramer's Mother Walter and the Pig Tragedy is an uneasy eulogy for the dying remnant. It's the foreshadowing of a requiem we'll probably be too busy to sing, for an eccentric community, which Kramer calls "Clabberville," of western Massachusetts farmers. The book is not a romance; it doesn't try to win you back to the land with the cheerleading tone of some pseudo-Movement drivel. The book is personalized journalism, comprising 28 pieces which Kramer wrote for the old Phoenix. These are honest first-hand sketches of the blessings and limits of rural existence...
...PAUL'S CHURCH, H-R Chorus performing Faure Requiem and works of Purcell, including Te Deum, March...
Threaded through such stories is a mixed garland of parodies, including Faulkner (Requiem for a Noun), Elizabeth Bowen ("Tennyson, Anyone?") and Ring Lardner, who is sent up in the guise of a Little League manager writing home in You Know Me, Alice...
...bored. "I had to create hurdles that would keep my mind from going to sleep at noon," he told TIME Correspondent Jesse Birnbaum last week. "I decided that rather than do another 'brilliant' movie for Debbie Reynolds, I'd prefer to conduct Brahms' Requiem in Kalamazoo and fail." So he conducted Brahms' Requiem in Kalamazoo and failed. Or maybe it was some other piece in some other town. In any case, it was tough starting. Eventually Previn won a regular post with the Houston Symphony. But after two lackluster seasons, he opted for the more...
...many Americans, the memory of Senator Joseph McCarthy cannot fade fast enough. In his native Wisconsin, though, a loyal few meet each spring in fond remembrance of the good old days. The 15th anniversary of McCarthy's death was marked last week with a Requiem High Mass in Milwaukee followed by a graveside service and a luncheon in Appleton the next day. About 40 members of the Joseph McCarthy Foundation gathered to hear the Rev. Raymond Vint avow that "history will unerringly find him his proper place in the estimation of the nation he served...