Living on the continuum
Thomas Mulready and I last night toured the Warehouse District dance club scene after listening to Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem with the Cleveland Orchestra. It was an amazing experience of contrasts — repetitive riffs on the club side rarely escaping the narrow confines of a single chord, on one hand, and on the other, a most moving and spectacular piece and presentation by chorus, orchestra, and international soloists, in many ways richer than the Messiah and more powerful than Beethoven’s 5th.
