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Requiem

March 30, 2009

A young woman died, and he made a CD of requiems for the parents.

“I don’t know what it is to lose a child,” he said. “But there is music and that’s why it was written.”

He sang a few bars of the Britten War Requiem, conducting the wordless language of loss.

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