Walter Meyer responding to a quote by conductor John Nelson posted by Gene
Halaburt:
>> "I commissioned Christopher Rouse to write a Requiem in the memory
>> of Berlioz (for the 200th anniversary of Berlioz's birth in 2003)
>
>Why a *Requiem* to commemorate the anniversary of someone's birth?
de Fetis seemed to think that that was the day music died.
Stirling Newberry
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[Don Mclean had a slightly different notion... -Dave]