Transcript: Interview: Opera singer Placido Domingo discusses the opera composer Giuseppe Verdi and Domingo's performance of Verdi's "Requiem" in Washington, DC

Dictionary definition: Dies Irae
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music;      298 words ...Dies Irae ( Day of Wrath ). A section of the Requiem Mass. The poem is probably by Thomas of Celano ... Berlioz, and others contain vivid depictions of the Dies Irae .

Dictionary definition: dies irae
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English;      302 words ...dies irae noun phrase E19 Latin (= day of wrath ... was formerly an obligatory part of the requiem mass in the Roman Catholic church; a musical ... any day of reckoning. The text of which Dies irae is the opening phrase is attributed to ...

Article: Dies irae
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      364 words ...Dies irae [Lat.,=day of wrath], hymn of the Roman Catholic Church. A part of the Requiem Mass, it is a powerful description of the Judgment and a prayer to Jesus for mercy. Suggested in part by Zeph. 1.14-16 ...

Article: Symphony No. 8, "Songs of Evanaescence."1 Dies ...
Fanfare;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... No. 8, "Songs of Evanaescence."1 Dies irae.2 From the Psalms of David * Antoni ... does, though, lead neatly into the Dies irae of 1967 and the settings of four Psalms ... these religious texts (especially the Dies irae) was to provide them with an apocalyptic ...

Article: Dies Irae.(Brief Article)
Quadrant;  January 1, 2000 ;     688 words ...The exclusive Sydney harbourside municipality of Chardonnay Hill has decided to keep 6 November each year as "a day of civic mourning". Chardonnay Hill voted a resounding 184 per cent in favour of a republic at November's referendum. "Henceforth 6 November is a day that will live in infamy,"

Article: 'DIES IRAE' : And don't you forget it.(judgment's ...
Commonweal;  May 4, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Once I was talking with a woman in our parish who had come from a Muslim background and had been baptized as an adult in her husband's Orthodox Christian faith. It was important for a couple to share a religion, she said, but what really matters is belief in God. I thought for a minute that she

Article: Dies IRAe.(A Farther Shore: Ireland's Long Road to ...
National Review;  December 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ...A Farther Shore: Ireland's Long Road to Peace, by Gerry Adams (Random House, 448 pp., $25.95) THERE wasn't much to laugh at in this plodding compilation of lies, damned lies, and cliches, but one scene briefly lifted my gloom. It was March 1998, the negotiations that would culminate the following