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 ([log in to unmask], http://www.camosun.bc.ca/~dbarker)