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Article: Requiem links Christian, Judaic elements: Composer's music is his personal way to remember the dead.(Arts)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- April 28, 1996
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"This is my own personal attempt to come to terms with the death of my parents," says composer Thomas Beveridge about his "Yizkor Requiem." His father was in his 80s when he died five years ago; Mr. Beveridge's mother died two years later, after he had begun the piece.
It is "about them and other people who have died," he says. "It's not about us."
So he left out all the dark parts of traditional Catholic Requiems, what he calls "the horrors of the last day of judgment and what's going to happen to us as individuals." There is no "Dies Irae" or "De Profundis."
What remains is a mixture that reflects the experience of Mr. Beveridge's ...