25 Feb 2006
The Kirov Delivers a Requiem Full of Life
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/25/AR2006022500037.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/25/AR2006022500037.html
By Philip Kennicott [Washington Post, 25 February 2006]
Verdi's Requiem Mass, the product of a man who was publicly agnostic and privately atheist, isn't really a religious work, but it raises all the problems for which religion purports to have the answers.