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Article: Coming together Students from three area colleges on team for Britten's 'Requiem'.(Spotlight)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- May 2, 2006
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Byline: Marc Shulgold, Rocky Mountain News
A pivotal moment late in Benjamin Britten's War Requiem depicts the otherworldly confrontation of two World War I soldiers representing opposite sides in the conflict.
"I am the enemy you killed, my friend," one sings mournfully. This climactic coming-together stands as one of the most profound moments in 20th-century music.
There's nothing quite as dramatic in the joining together of musical forces for Wednesday's ambitious performance of the War Requiem in Boettcher Hall. But the logistics behind assembling and rehearsing singers and instrumentalists from three universities cannot easily be ...