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Re: Rouse Requiem in Memory of Berlioz
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Stirling Newberry <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 27 Apr 2001 20:41:00 -0400
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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]

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