[Magdalen] Kurt Masur Dies.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

He will be remembered for directing the performance of the Brahms Requiem
shortly after the attack on the World Trade Center Towers and the Pentagon.
It was the absolutely perfect choice.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

>
>
> The famed Kapellmeister of  the Leipzig Gewarndhaus and Director of  the
> New York Philharmonic died yesterday at 88.  He was another victim  of
> Parkinson's.  He was a highly visible advocate of German  reunification.
>
> He was born in Silesia, then part of Germany, but ceded to Poland in  that
> land-grab in 1945 instituted by Stalin. This saw the eastern one half  of
> prewar Poland become part of Russia, and a big hunk of the eastern  portion
> of prewar Germany become part of Poland to compensate.  It  also created
> the infamous "DP's" (displaced persons) which resulted in a mass  exodus
> of Germans to the west in numbers acceding the present Syrian one.
>
>
>
> David Strang......Remembering seeing/hearing his rendition of
> Mendelssohn's "Elijah"
> with the New York Philharmonic and Westminster Chorus.  It was
> unforgetable.
>