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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 21:25:45 -0400
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Stirling Newberry responded to Walter Meyer concerning a commission to
write a Requiem in the memory of the 200th anniversary of Berlioz's birth:

>>Why a *Requiem* to commemorate the anniversary of someone's birth?
>
>de Fetis seemed to think that that was the day music died.
>
>[Don Mclean had a slightly different notion...  -Dave]

You mean "the father, son and the holy ghost" don't refer to Haydn, Mozart
and Beethoven? I've been misinterpretting the song for years then...

Stirling Newberry
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