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Article: Symphony will perform two requiems - and a miracle.(Entertainment)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- April 6, 2003
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Byline: Fred Crafts The Register-Guard
Although composers Wolfgang Mozart and Einojuhani Rautavaara had death on their minds when they wrote their requiems, Eugene Symphony Orchestra conductor Giancarlo Guerrero insists their works are life-affirming.
Thursday night, the orchestra will play Mozart's Requiem Mass in D Minor (K.626), widely known through the soundtrack for the motion picture "Amadeus," and the Finnish composer's "Requiem in Our Time" (Op. 3), an award-winning work seldom heard in this country.
Guerrero has built the entire program around Mozart's Requiem.
"The message is quite powerful, having to deal with the Mass for ...