Word: requiems
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...poet, Wilfred Owen, who was killed in France a week before the Armistice. The music was by Benjamin Britten, a passionate pacifist and conscientious objector during World War II. After the chorus in West Berlin's Deutsche Oper had chanted the final line of Britten's War Requiem, the stunned audience sat in utter silence. Then came volleys of applause. Britten's nonliturgical Mass is fast taking its place as one of the rare modern masterworks for the voice...
Britten's War Requiem was given its premiere last spring shortly after the re-dedication of Coventry Cathedral, largely destroyed by Hitler's bombers, and recently rebuilt. "The most masterly and nobly inspired work that the composer has ever given us," exulted the London Times. But despite such resounding praise even Britten's most unrestrained admirers harbored some doubts about how his Mass would be received in Germany. As the Berlin Philharmonic began playing the Mass last week, perhaps the most nervous man in the house was Britten himself, perched in the tenth row with the score...
...Buffalo, N.Y., a boilermaker's son who recently celebrated the golden jubilee of his priesthood; of a heart attack; at the Ecumenical Council in the Vatican. All five U.S. cardinals and 350 bishops overflowed Rome's little Church of Santa Susanna for Bishop Burke's Requiem Mass, marking the first death among the 2,540 prelates at the council...
...Requiem for a Heavyweight...
...20th century. The Bear is considered by some to be the finest piece of American writing since Moby Dick. Beside him, Hemingway was a little boy with a popgun trying to act tough. The article on Faulkner was fine for its length, but in place of publishing a requiem for an American genius, you gave your readers a mild human-interest story about another peculiar Southern writer...