Word: requiems
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...Requiem. U.S. exports, which started to drop in June, fell another 7% in July, said the Department of Commerce, and are now down 19% from their May peak. The Department of Commerce expected exports to drop further as the world ran out of U.S. dollars. Latest dollar conservation move: Australia, following the British and French lead, imposed a ban on some 32 products ranging from washing machines to tires...
...under Dr. Koussevitzky. The final series, like the first, includes works from Haydn to Hindemuth, with the Festival chorus under Robert Shaw, who last brought his talents before University audiences with his choir concert at the Music Symposium in May, directing one concert which is to feature the Mozart "Requiem...
Singing Brahms' German Requiem with the Boston Symphony last night, the combined full Harvard and Radcliffe groups proved that when doing the music they are suited for, they are on a par with the best amateur choral societies in the Nation. As Dr. Koussevitzky unfolded his reading of this monumental seven section work, the voices surged and glowed from the opening, hushed "Blessed are they that mourn . . ." to the triumphant closing fugue, "Worthy art Thou to be praised...
...Koussevitzky's interpretation may be subject to personal criticism, but it is a warm, lyric approach that does full justice to the cyclical construction and almost earthy quality of the music. For, despite name, the Requiem is not sorrowful or morbid, but confident and reassuring. Particularly fine were the male voices in the great fortissimo, "Behold, all flesh . . . ," and Radcliffe attained equal stature in the flowing fourth section and the final fugue. The impassioned soprano solos of Miss Frances Yeend lent the note of high personal achievement needed to round out a very satisfying concert...
...Glee Club last performed the requiem with the Vassey chorus, in the closing concert of the spring trip on April...