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Article: Requiem for a Nation.(Sound Recording Review)
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- Sojourners Magazine
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- November 1, 2003
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An American Requiem, by Richard Danielpour. Recorded by the Pacific Symphony Orchestra. Reference Recordings.
When Richard Danielpour composed An American Requiem in September 2000, he had no idea it would be presented to a nation experiencing a battlefront on its own soil. Yet a year later he was on the phone to his New York publishers, discussing the details of the recording's inscription, when his editor stopped to witness the jet hurtle into the second World Trade Center tower. In that tragic moment, Danielpour revised his inscription to read, "To all the victims of war."
Danielpour is a prolific and vibrant composer whose sweeping and reflective ...