Requiem

by wasasister 17 Replies latest jw friends

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  wasasister

  Tomorrow, Mozart's Requiem Mass will be performed in every time zone around the world. It's being called the "Rolling Requiem" and the idea originated in Seattle. Most, if not all, performances are free of charge.

  Although this piece of music was written with the Latin words of a ritual Roman Catholic death mass, the music is transcendent of religion. It is the most sublime and profound testament to the indomitable spirit of mankind I have ever heard. It's way more a "gee, I'm glad I'm not the guy in the box" than, "oh, aren't we sad we're all going to die."

  I'd recommend a close listen if any of you are in a position to do so. I hope it leaves you, as it does me, celebrating life, art, beauty, love and kindness wherever we can find it.

  Very best to you all,

  Wasasister

  Edited by - wasasister on 11 September 2002 0:53:5
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  heathen

  What do you mean being performed ? I'm in central time zone so what time ? I like classical music and mozart was the man in his day.
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  wasasister

  By "being performed", I mean live performances across every time zone in the world. There is probably one near where you live. Check your local classical radio station for details.

  see:http://king.org/club/special1.html

  Edited by - wasasister on 11 September 2002 1:23:34
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  heathen

  thank you . so now I know to listen to the radio at 8:46 am on 101.1 fm in texas and hopefully they won't be on seattle time cause no way will I be interested at 6:46 am.
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  wasasister

  should be on local time wherever you are. thanks...
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  Farkel

  heathan,

  : I like classical music and mozart was the man in his day.

  No he wasn't. Antonio Salieri was the "man" in Mozart's day. Mozart was not that popular when he was alive. When he died, he was tossed into a pauper's grave and do this day, no one knows exactly where he is buried. Mozart later became the "man" for all ages and only music geeks like me know about Salieri because Salieri wrote crap. There was no finer musician that ever existed on this planet than Wofgang A. Mozart. HE is the "man." Died at age 35-6. Imagine what he could have done had he lived twice that long.

  Farkel

  Edited by - Farkel on 11 September 2002 1:51:59
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  wasasister

  Amen to that, Fark. At the end of the movie, based on the Broadway play "Amadeus," the Requiem mass plays as Mozart's body is dumped into the mass grave. It always brings me to tears.

  Of course, Mozart would not have done what he did if Bach had not blazed the trail before him. Bach's mathematical patterns provided the inspiration for much of the Classical Age.
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  Farkel

  wasa,

  Re J.S. Bach: for a hundred years after his death, old man Bach was totally forgotten. His son Carl Phillip Emmanuel was famous (he wrote "Rococco" crap, too), and his other son Johann Christian had some moderate fame, but not the old man himself. Do you know which musician it was who resurrected the music of J.S. Bach and therefore established Bach's stature for all the ages?

  Farkel
  Music Trivia Class
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  Big Tex

  Hey Farkel,

  I've heard theories that Mozart's death was at the hands of the Freemasons. As the story goes supposedly the Masons were angry at Mozart for revealing certain Masonic secrets in _____ (ack! Alzheimer's has struck; can't remember the opera). Do you put any stock in those theories? Or do you think he died young because of a full throttle lifestyle? Just wondering . . . .
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  teejay

  >> Imagine what he could have done had he lived twice that long.

  He woulda died a forgotten, penniless bum. The second from the back page of the local rag would've had a two paragraph blurb about him... mainly wondering where'd he'd been all those years and why he didn't do more.

  Ah. Such a wonderful life, eh Farkster?