Front Matter
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Introduction
I read an excellent article by Avins in the journal 19th-Century Music, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Spring 2001), pp. 276-289 (14 pages)—“The Young Brahms: Biographical Data Reexamined.” You will have to give your e-mail address and create an account as an “independent researcher” in order to read the whole thing, but if you’re a fan of Brahms you’ll find it fascinating.
2from The Daughter of Time, by Josephine Tey, originally published 1951, now available in many formats and editions. Read it or listen to it, any way you can! You won’t be sorry.
4“Johannes Brahms, the Man and Humanist: A Psychoanalytic View”
5“Robert Shaw and the Brahms Requiem”
6”Philharmonic Slated to Perform Brahms’ Requiem”
8”A German Requiem in Memory of Lara Hoggard”
Movement #1: Chorus
Movement #2: Chorus
An old Gospel song that I’ve heard many times in my church growing up (although not sung by the Stanley brothers) which echoes the idea of Zion’s being Heaven, or the new earth:
Movement #3: Baritone Solo and Chorus
Movement #4: Chorus
3”Sabaoth,” BibleStudyTools.com
4I Samuel 30:6b King James Version
Movement #5: Baritone Solo and Chorus
Movement #6: Chorus and Baritone Solo
I’d like to include a congregation singing an old gospel song that’s very familiar to me from my childhood, emphasizing that “here we have no continuing city”–
Movement #7: Chorus
Here is the performance I mentioned way back in the introduction to this material as a whole, performed in the First Plymouth Church in Lincoln Nebraska in 2019, with joined forces of three choirs and an orchestra. The conductor, Tom Trenney, gives a great intro before launching into it. Trenney decided to use the Lara Hoggard translation because, as he said in an e-mail to me, it seemed “a bit more compelling to my ear” than the older translations available. It’s a great job all around, and I hope that after becoming a bit more acquainted with the texts because of the foregoing material you’ll find the words as meaningful as the music.
