Word: requiems
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...works, struggling young composers have discovered that one quick way to command attention is to win a musical joust. One of the most impressive of such champions is England's Wilfred Josephs; by winning the $5,000 top prize in the first La Scala competition with his Requiem, he gained international recognition and the sweet satisfaction of having conductors court him for a change...
When Cincinnati Symphony Conductor Max Rudolf first read of Josephs' triumph, he sent for the score and decided to introduce it to the U.S. Last week at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, Requiem was a winner in every respect...
...finally paraded ecstatically through congratulatory mobs in Spoleto's town square on the night of his birthday. Musically, the program equaled anything that Bell was ever able to do in the studio, with Sviatoslav Richter as the pianist in the Shostakovich Quintet and Zubin Mehta conducting the Verdi Requiem and a stunning new production of Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande...
Today there will be a service in Memorial Church at 2 p.m. Requiem masses will be held at St. Mary's Church, Melrose, tomorrow at 7:30 a.m., and at St. Paul's Church, Cambridge, Thursday, at 5 p.m. Ohiri sang in the choir at St. Paul...
...time, though, the only one who couldn't see something in the painting was the artist himself. Fumed Motherwell: "The painting is totally abstract. It is not a picture of Kennedy's death, but an elegy, which is an expression of grief for someone dead, like a requiem mass." Motherwell should know. It is the 104th elegy that he has painted in the past 18 years, and nobody has ever admitted seeing anything in one before...