Music for Remembering
(CHRISTMAS is a time of reckless spending, both of money and goodwill, a time for handshakes and slaps on the back, for drinking and eating, for carollizg and wassailing-but it is also a time for remembering. Fauré’s "Requiem" which 1YX broadcast the Saturday before Christmas is music for remembering, for contemplation, This is ‘not religious music in the ceremonial ‘sense; it transcends creed to achieve a universality which is fundamental. What someone calls "its gentle confidence, its tender and tranquil expectancy" is the expression of a genuinely human grief not to be translated into any other language but music and the meaningless, meaningful words of the form of Mass. Universal yet private, this is grief without sadness, sorrow without tears.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 342, 11 January 1946, Page 8
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123Music for Remembering New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 342, 11 January 1946, Page 8
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