Word: requiems
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...Armendariz gives a fine performance. But when he starts making bestial passes at Jennifer Jones while Garfield hides in the cellar, he is only one jump ahead of old-fashioned horse opera. Another kernel of corn: Garfield's big death scene, highlighted by Gilbert Roland's brokenhearted requiem in calypso rhythm and some highfalutin dialogue delivered by Miss Jones. Never for a moment a dull movie, Strangers is often too facile or too far away from strict artistic honesty. Coming from the man who made Treasure of the Sierra Madre, it is a disappointment...
...virtually free of commercials. Best known, and probably best like of these programs was the Endowment Series which lasted a full three hours, uninterrupted except for brief program notes. The Endowment Series made possible the playing of exceptionally long works, such as Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and the Brahms Requiem. And except for an hour or so of luncheon music, all programs were composed of uniformly high quality classical and semi-classical works...
What had Mathilde Carré wanted from life? During the trial, the prosecution had read this, from her diary: "What I wanted most was a good meal, a man, and, once more, Mozart's Requiem...
Roaches' Requiem. They sang over the ship's watercoolers and evaporators, over the food, coffee, soap bars and even the cockroaches of the storerooms. They sang particularly loud over the tarry caulking of the deck planks and spots of rust. The tuna fish made them sing, and so did the coral and the very sands of the lagoon. Oil streaks that had floated miles away remained menacingly hot. So insignificant was the salubrious effect of salt water that even the rocky ledges of neighboring atolls clung to their radioactivity in the teeth of foaming breakers...
...Berlioz: Requiem (Emile Passani Choir and Orchestra, Jean Fournet conducting; Columbia, 22 sides). "If I were threatened with the destruction of the whole of my works save one," wrote Hector Berlioz, "I would crave mercy for the Requiem." Seldom performed because of its huge size (300 voices, a tenor soloist, the equivalent of four small orchestras, four brass bands and organ), it is one of the great choral works of all time. The performance, an excellent one, was recorded in France during the war. Recording: good...