Tag Archives: Requiems

A GLIMMER OF HOPE (1)

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Touch2Touch

(Gemma, this post’s for you. We have a deal.) When I wrote the post What Does Being Human Mean, Anyway? the morning after the Boston Marathon Massacre, I was angry, distraught, and in despair. Despair = de spero = out of … Continue reading →

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The SESSIONS Session

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Touch2Touch

This is a follow-up to previous post, Why I Haven’t Been Posting Lately, wherein I lamented having to deal with 20th century composer Roger Sessions’ musical setting of Walt Whitman’s poetic elegy for Abraham Lincoln, “When Lilacs Last in the … Continue reading →

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Why I Haven’t Been Posting Lately —

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Touch2Touch

I blame it on this guy: Roger Sessions (1896 – 1985) was the most prolific and illustrious 20th century composer I had never heard of. That is, until I entered the continuing education seminar I’m taking now, Music for Mourning. It … Continue reading →

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