Tom Connor ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Bernard Chasan wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>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.
>
>The audience was silent.

On the day RFK ws assassinated Otto Klemperer added Mozart's Masonic
Funeral Music, K.477 to his programme in Vienna.  The main work -
appropriately IMHO - was Mahler 9.

deryk barker
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