CLASSICAL Archives

Moderated Classical Music List

CLASSICAL@COMMUNITY.LSOFT.COM

Options: Use Forum View

Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
From:
Billy Kitson <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 4 Jun 1999 07:52:10 +1000
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (16 lines)
Daniel Paul Horn wrote:

>Not having seen the article, I can only assume that this is a reference
>to a mass being composed by Henryk Gorecki, which, to the very best of
>my knowledge, is supposed to be sung at the Vatican by forces conducted
>by John Nelson on Christmas Eve, 1999, as a way to usher in the Jubilee
>year, decreed by the Pope for the year 2000.  ...

Ahh, somebody else read the Sunday Telegraph item it was in Tuesday's
Sydney Morning Herald = a sense of "deja vu" Re:  - WAMozart and a FEW
others did come into my head!!  If Mr Gorecki is regarded as "one of the
world's successful living composers" [direct quote from article] "Lord
help Us"!!

Bill(Y)

ATOM RSS1 RSS2