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Requiem adds to tradition that is centuries old
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Requiem adds to tradition that is centuries old
By RICHARD DYER Boston Globe
Sunday, March 9, 2003
Composer John Harbison has added another work to the significant
tradition of musical settings of the Requiem Mass, the liturgical
ceremony of prayer for the rest of a departed soul.
Working with this text gives musicians and the public the
opportunity to engage with ultimate issues, to join a dialogue with
eternity that has stretched across centuries of human experience.
In a note prefacing the score, the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer
writes, "I wanted a sense of ancient inheritance to inhabit ...
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