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...footlights: General Director Gaetano Merola, the man who founded the company 30 years ago and built it to second rank in the U.S. (after the Met), had died two weeks before the opening (TIME, Sept. 7). The prologue's angels sang their harmonies almost as a Requiem...
...freezes into a tintype tableau. Then everybody but Casey (Louis Venora), who is impressive but mute, bursts into songs of Schuman and Gury devising. Among them: a what-does-the-catcher-say-to-the-pitcher number, a kill-the-umpire rhubarb and, after the immortal third strike, a heartfelt requiem. But the piece ends on a happy note: Casey is still a hero to his girl. Musically, the opera was ingenious if not immortal-though at an hour and 20 minutes, it was about 20 minutes too long. Nonetheless, the Hartford audience seemed to like most of it, and gave...
...came to embody that enduring sense of the past that lives in the present, which is the Englishman's special love. As the court went into a 30-day mourning period (which will end before the coronation), one who strongly shares this sense of past & present spoke her requiem...
...Mozart: Requiem (Robert Shaw Chorale conducted by Robert Shaw; RCA Victor Orchestra; Victor). The best recording to date, but for some reason one of the world's most beautiful scores continues to defy recording techniques: too often the chorus overpowers the orchestra when it should float over it, clouds the counterpoint when it should limn...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Featuring Benjamin Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem...