Word: requiems
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Pressure was on the Harvard Summer School chorus even before it came into existence. Two weeks after try-outs the group was scheduled to visit the Boston Symphony Orchestra at its summer home in Tanglewood and perform Mozart Requiem in D minor...
...established chorus, two weeks of rehearsal on a major composition such as the Requiem would be barely sufficient. For director Iva Dee Hiatt and the 114 members of the Summer School Chorus, accepting such an assignment was a courageous...
...concert brought to a close a week of Mozart programs at Tanglewood. Mozart's final composition, the Requiem was not completed when the composer died in 1791, and had to be finished by his pupils. Leinsdorf dedicated the Sunday performance to the memory of Pope John XXIII, who, like Mozart, "was interrupted at the height of his powers...
...Tanglewood the Chorus will sing the Mozart Requiem in honor of Pope John XXIII with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Eric Leinsdorf on July...
...clerics dressed the body for its final appearance: golden miter, white alb, crimson and gold gloves, chasuble, buskins and slippers. In John's hands was placed the tiny black crucifix he had held in his final hours. The bells of Rome's 540 churches pealed out a requiem across the city...