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Article: EDITOR'S CHOICE: REQUIEMS IN SACRED SETTINGS.(Brief Article)
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- Crain's Chicago Business
- Article date:
- October 18, 1999
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The requiems of Mozart, Verdi, Brahms and other famous composers are such beautiful, powerful pieces of music that they've become staples of professional orchestras and their choruses.
On and around All Souls' Day this year, local churches will give music lovers the chance to hear requiems not as concerts, but as part of a church service, the setting for which most of them were written.
For those unfamiliar with sacred music, requiems serve as a fine introduction, says Richard Webster, organist and choirmaster at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Evanston. ``The musical settings are superbly beautiful. It's one of the most direct and powerful ways that ...