Word: requiems
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...Congo's squabbling politicians seemed more concerned about the line of succession. Almost to a man they found at least qualified praise for the man they had fought. They called days of mourning and turned out for Requiem Masses...
...picture combines, condenses and reshapes the main story elements of Sanctuary (1931) and its sequel, Requiem for a Nun (1951). Abandoned by her drunken date (Bradford Dillman) at a backwoods distillery, the 17-year-old daughter (Lee Remick) of the governor is raped by the resident bootlegger (Yves Montand) and dragged off to a sporting house in New Orleans, where he keeps her for his private pleasure-which also turns out to be hers. After some weeks he is reported killed and the girl goes sadly home to Papa, who soothes what he assumes to be her injured innocence...
Other selections of contemporary band music will complete the program, according to James A. Walker, Director of the Band. Walker is particularly enthusiastic about modern works by Williams and Shuman. In addition to contemporary selections, the Band will play the Manzonni Requiem by Verdi, and Elsn's Procession to the Cathedral by Wagner...
Then Gleason recalled the post-première celebration and the victorious return to his hotel ("I opened the window to look out and see if it was still snowing, and they had the nets up"). His conclusion: "This isn't a requiem for a heavyweight. I'm coming back next week. I don't know what we're going to do, but tune in on the next chapter, because this might be the greatest soapless soap opera you've ever seen...
...Frasquita in a 1955 production of Carmen at La Scala. After that, Sciutti opened every season at La Piccola Scala (La Scala's intimate, 700-seat annex, specializing in rarely done or light operas). Elsewhere, she has shown her great versatility by singing everything from Mozart's Requiem (under Bruno Walter), to a TV performance of The Merry Widow, to Polly Peachum in Weill's Threepenny Opera. Soprano Sciutti is married to a former operatic bass from Seattle named Bob Wahoski, who long ago abandoned music to form his own European Travel Service, which ferries U.S. tourists...