This coffee breaks ends the examination of music that represents death by listening to extraordinary works by two great composers, music that takes us through the darkness into the afterlife. Sinfonia da Requiem was Benjamin Britten's antiwar piece that was structured similarly to the Roman Catholic Mass for the dead. Britten's War Requiem brings choir, soloist, poetry and two orchestras together to create an amazing vision of life and death. Death and Transfiguration is Richard Strauss's tone poem about a dying man's thoughts on his life's experience and he finally receives his transfiguration "from the infinite reaches of heaven." Powerful ideas and music.

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