Rolling Requiem to unite world

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | September 8, 2002| | Copyright

9-11: ONE YEAR LATER

Music & Dance

Rolling Requiem to unite world

By TOM STRINI of the Journal Sentinel staff

Sunday, September 8, 2002

The central dilemma of life is death, and Western art music faces it squarely.

Music for the Requiem, the Catholic mass for the dead, has been a solemn and ambitious task for generations of composers, not all of them Catholics or even believers. Naturally, the three greatest Requiems have been invoked to assuage the grief of Sept. 11.

Days after the tragedies, Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic mounted an emergency performance of Brahms' "A German ...

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