Word: requiems
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...curtain has just fallen on William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun (Royal Court). Let us now imagine that there steps from the wings the Stage Manager of Thornton Wilder's Our Town. Pulling on a corncob pipe, he speaks...
...voice was originally trained for opera. Born in Alabama, Odetta grew up in Los Angeles, picked up money for her voice lessons working in a button factory and as a maid. By the time she entered junior college she was a chorister in productions of Verdi's Requiem, Bach's B-Minor Mass. In those days, she recalls, "if it wasn't classical, I didn't want it." But one night at a party she heard a group of performers from a San Francisco nightspot sing folk songs until dawn, and promptly "fell in love with...
...Verdi: Requiem (Leontyne Price, Jussi Bjoerling, Rosalind Elias, Giorgio Tozzi; Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna Society of the Friends of Music, under Fritz Reiner; RCA Victor, 2 LPs). A clean-lined, beautifully balanced and honest version, full of tranquil breathing space. The performances by Tenor Bjoerling, in his last, full recording role before his death, and Soprano Price, at the incandescent top of her form, stand out as stunning achievements...
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Ed and Keenan Wynn fight it out as a real-life father-and-son team when The Man in the Funny Suit looks into the backstage squabbles during the production of Rod Serling's award-winning teleplay, Requiem for a Heavyweight. Even Serling plays himself...
Brazen Chariots, by Robert Crisp. For the men of the tank corps, the baptism of fire was often a requiem. They have at last received a literary citation from a gallant South African major in the British army, who was himself wounded fighting against Rommel...