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...REQUIEM FOR A NUN (286 pp.]-William Faulkner-Random House...
...Mississippi Novelist Faulkner can claim more roots than rooters in the U.S. One reason: his explosive Southern fables are sometimes hooked to devious verbal fuses that leave the average reader weary or wondering. When he wants to, Faulkner can also be as direct as a bolt of summer lightning. Requiem for a Nun is a tantalizing blend of both Faulkners. It rates a middle pass on a fictional report card starred with such finer achievements...
...Requiem. Sherman (Annapolis '17) became a naval aviator after World War I, was soon one of the Navy's best (he won a personal "E" for dive bombing and fighter gunnery). During World War II, as skipper of the aircraft carrier Wasp, he won a Navy Cross for his handling of the ship when she was torpedoed off Guadalcanal. Later, as Admiral Chester Nimitz' chief planner, he devised the Navy's brilliant leapfrog tactics in the fight across the Pacific...
Those who were fortunate enough to hear Charles Munch conduct the Requiem this week know that it is a remarkable piece, one that easily rises above the carpings. The orchestration is a revolutionary feature but there is more to it than unique sounds such as flutes combined with trombones playing pedal tones. The Requiem is great dramatic religious music...
Charles Munch is probably the outstanding living interpreter of Berlioz. His reading of the Requiem was incandescent. But great credit must also go to the Glee Club and Choral Society. It seems remarkable that in so short a time they could become so respensive to Mr. Munch's direction. And even in the last performance, their tone quality remained pure and clear. The excellence of their training was particularly well shown in the a capella prayer "Quaerens...