Britten’s War Requiem at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine
"My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity … All a poet can do today is warn." – Wilfred Owen At first, I thought […]
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Robert Spano Leads Britten’s Haunting War Requiem at Carnegie Hall
by James Rosenfield Photo credit: Hiroyuki Ito, The New York Times Shostakovich reportedly called Britten's War Requiem the greatest work of the 20th century. It's certainly one of the most harrowing—mourning