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 [log in to unmask] http://www.mp3.com/ssn