Word: requiems
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...with superb musical opportunities. In addition to their December 3 concert, Collegium will sing with the Boston Symphony. Michael Tilson Thomas conducting, in his new Spectrum series. One of the pieces performed will be "Pot-pourri" by Harvard's David del Tredici. The Collegium will also present the Mozart Requiem on April 23 in St. Paul's here in Cambridge, and may sing at the Loeb Arts Festival later in the spring...
Jaunty Note. Not surprisingly for a composer who lived to such a ripe age, Stravinsky wrote his own requiem. This week his body was to be flown to Venice for burial in the Russian corner of the cemetery of San Michele. His Requiem Canticles (1966) were to be sung at a final service in the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo. All this is in accordance with the composer's own devout wishes. Still, even Stravinsky himself might have liked the additional jaunty note of the epitaph he tossed off nine years ago, before leaving for an African conducting...
...shot through with rueful humor. Playwright Storey subtly draws an ironic parallel between the plight of the two men and the fate of England. The word island recurs: England shorn of empire, reduced to her physical boundaries, but with names and deeds of the past intoned like a faint requiem of glory-Newton, and Sir Walter Raleigh and the discovery of penicillin. The sceptered isle has become a gleamless cinder on the tides of history...
...Jacqueline Kennedy at the time of her marriage to Aristotle Onassis two years ago. He offered his resignation at the time, but then retracted it. Cushing's body will lie in state at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross until Saturday, when Archbishop Medeiros will preside at a Requiem Mass concelebrated by four other bishops...
Even in his disastrous New York period, Barbirolli made important contributions to music. Here he conducted several Britten premieres, including the Sinfonia da Requiem, and the Violin Concerto. Nonetheless, he could not control the orchestra as it needed to be controlled, and was left to return home, disheartened...