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Tom Connor wrote:
>Bernard Chasan wrote:
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>>I still remember the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination almost
>>thirty years ago. And what I remember most vividly is the Schubert
>>Mass (his last) which a Boston station played. It was what I needed
>>to hear.
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>The prior year in Boston Leinsdorf had programmed the Beethoven 3rd
>Symphony. Then, on Friday afternoon November 22, the funeral march
>was included in the program.
Karajan was conducting the Berlin Philharmonic in Washington's Constitution
Hall just a few days after Churchill's death. He added the same movement
to the program. Churchill had led a long and fullfilled life and a hero's
march on the occasion of his death seemed eminently appropriate.
I feel different however where death is unexpected, premature, and possibly
violent. The evocation of a "loving father above a canopy of stars" from
Beethoven's Ninth after the hideousness of 9/11 angered me almost as much
as the event itself. Of course, I didn't have to listen.
Walter Meyer
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