Word: requiems
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...with unquiet confidence, bellowing, as he always has: "I'm the world's greatest." Entering his new career with appetite akimbo, he has already completed another film, Gigot, for which he wrote the story himself, and in Manhattan last week he was at work on still another, Requiem for a Heavyweight...
CHORUS PRO MUSICA at Symphony Hall will play a Verdi Requiem Sunday evening...
...seem to want to communicate with me." Says Warren: "Our lives have been absolutely separate, but there's not a big hostile thing." Independently, he lives his own young-Hollywood life with his own little mouse pack. His long romance with English Actress Joan Collins entered the requiem phase last week with her announcement that their engagement is broken. Meanwhile, squaring out a complicated parallelogram, Actress Collins is dating Actor Robert Wagner, and Wagner's estranged wife, Actress Natalie Wood, is currently decorating the swimming pool at Warren Beatty's rented pink-stucco home in the hills...
...turned his attention to Verdi and began comparing printed scores with manuscripts. Eventually, Ricordi officials confiscated Vaughan's notes and banned him from the archives, but not before he had made some surprising discoveries: there are 27,000 errors in printed versions of Falstaff, 8,000 in the Requiem, 18,000 in Tosca. Examples, from Falstaff...
What is most striking about the Requiem and this performance was the combination of sweetness with simplicity and order. Faure scored it for small forces and encapsulated loudness and brass entrances within the quietness and reserve of its larger structure; Munch never violated his intention. This combination of restraint and feeling seems to hark back much to the Enlightenment, for Faure's paradise is a place of rest with no harrowing alternative of hell. He is essentially a humanist who finds the Christian forms both beautiful and adaptable to his own feelings...