Word: requiems
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...funeral, it rained. With admirable restraint, nobody wrote that "Even the skies wept for the Babe"-except the New York Times's Sport Columnist Arthur Daley, who passed off the remark on a defenseless taxi driver. In St. Patrick's Cathedral, Francis Cardinal Spellman presided at a Requiem Mass (attended by 6,000), with Governor Dewey, New York's Mayor O'Dwyer and Boston's Mayor Curley as pallbearers. The press reported that 75,000 people were "in the area," which could be said of Rockefeller Center any weekday. The Daily News headlined: RUTH...
...valiant fight, Mindszenty lost on the school issue last week. The Hungarian Parliament declared the parochial schools nationalized. Catholics could not alter the official decree, but they had ways of retorting. Across the land, at the cardinal's order, church bells tolled a 15-minute requiem. In Budapest (before the police broke up their demonstration) women shouted: "Wait till September-our children will be taught at home...
Brahms: A German Requiem (Eleanor Steber, soprano; James Pease, bass; the RCA Victor Chorale and Symphony, Robert Shaw conducting; Victor, 18 sides). Brahms avoided the traditional liturgy, chose his own excerpts from the Bible "because I am a musician and because I needed them." Finished eight years before his first symphony (and foreshadowing it), this was the first composition to win him wide fame. Its moments of beauty more than make up for its minutes of tedium. Performance: good...
...Mozart: Requiem (Pia Tassinari, Ebe Stignani, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Italo Tajo; orchestra and chorus of the E.I.A.R., Victor de Sabata conducting; Cetra-Soria, 16 sides). Mozart began writing this masterpiece in the last few months of his life, for another's memorial. Finished by his pupil Sussmayer, it has since served well as Mozart's own memorial. This is a recording of the magnificent performance in the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome on the 150th anniversary of his death (1941). Recording: good...
Words & Music. Last week, Maestro Toscanini was busy brewing one of his favorite prescriptions in his own precise and painstaking way. Next week in Carnegie Hall he will conduct the Verdi Requiem in a charity performance for the New York Infirmary. And at $5 to $25 a seat and $250 a box, Carnegie Hall is already sold out, for the biggest gross in its history...