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President Johnson and Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy will hear 60 members of the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society sing at a Requiem Mass in Boston for the late President Kennedy. Richard Cardinal Cashing will celebrate the Mass in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross...
Still, very little of his work found its way into the standard orchestral repertory. Even such masterpieces as the opera Mathis der Maler, the Philharmonic Concerto, the symphony Harmonie der Welt, and the requiem are rarely heard. Though his music is easily accessible to modern audiences, it is admired mainly by musicians, who hear in it the evidence of a lofty musicianship that is not often encountered in modern composers...
Benjamin Britten began the celebration of his 50th birthday by conducting the London Symphony last September in a concert dedicated to himself. He took the podium again last week to honor his birthday with a performance of his War Requiem at London's Royal Festival Hall. Having given English critics the entire autumn to contemplate the significance of a birthday that in fact occurred in late November, Britten found himself still best described by two praiseful paradoxes. Though he has gained immensely in intellectual force over the years, he has lost none of his youthful high spirits and originality...
Clear & Clean. It was only last year that Britten produced the War Requiem, which is the capstone of his remarkable career. And since its first performance for the rededication of the Coventry Cathedral, the Requiem has grown in esteem at every hearing, until it is now acclaimed both in Britain and abroad as a modern masterwork. It describes the wide range of Britten's vision and his mastery of the clean, clear voice in which he speaks better than any of his other compositions. With it Britten has emerged as England's greatest composer since Henry Purcell...
Benjamin Britten: War Requiem (London). Britten conducts the Bach and Highgate school choirs and the London Symphony Orchestra (Vishnevskaya, Pears and Fischer-Dieskau, soloists) in a reverent performance...