Word: requiems
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...three children marched an imposing procession-the police band, a color guard, 6,000 uniformed cops and plainclothesmen (one-third of the city's entire force). Present at the service in the Roman Catholic Church of the Ascension were the police glee club, which sang the Requiem Mass, the six Catholic, Jewish and Protestant police department chaplains, Police Commissioner William O'Brien and other top-ranking police officials, and, looking grim, Mayor O'Dwyer himself...
...music-loving Cincinnatians packed the flower-banked Music Hall (capacity 3,500) to hear and applaud everything. They got no beer & pretzels program from Busch. In five days and five concerts, he offered them dumpling-heavy portions of the music he loves best: Bach, Bruckner, Mahler Mozart, Verdi (the Requiem), Wagner. On the last night, the audience in the Music Hall stood up to close the festival by roaring out the "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's Messiah...
...Rome's Church of St. Augustine, a requiem mass commemorating the fifth anniversary of the death of Benito Mussolini was attended by the dictator's widow, Donna Rachele, son Romano and daughters Anna Maria and Countess Edda Ciano. The black-clad Mussolini family stood throughout the long ceremony while a cordon of police surrounded the church. Arrested: one student who shouted "Viva Mussolini!" above the voices of the singers...
...apiece. The crowd that came to see the mortal remains of Kansas City's murdered Northside boss, Charley Binaggio, and his gun-toting henchman, Charles Gargotta, was bigger than the funeral home's large "chapel" could accommodate. Each body was laid to rest with a Requiem Mass...
Five months later, nonetheless, after more hemorrhages, Frederic Chopin quietly took the sacraments, said his prayers, and died. His last requests were that the Mozart Requiem be played at his funeral and that his heart be taken to Warsaw...