Classical WSMR is featuring special music throughout the day as we reflect and remember those we lost because of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
The Evening Masterwork is Maurice Duruflé's "Requiem."
The French composer published only thirteen works in his career, perhaps because the self-avowed perfectionist said he "worked slowly and threw a lot away."
His works spanned the better part of the 20th century. Among them, his requiem. It's a work originally designed to be an organ piece based on the Mass for the Dead.
Here is what Duruflé said about it:
"This Requiem is not an ethereal work singing of detachment from human concerns. In the unchanging form of Christian prayer, it reflects the anguish of humanity faced with the mystery of its final end."
He wrote it in remembrance of his father. It was inspired by the works of Ravel, Debussy, and especially Fauré.
Classical WSMR will feature it at 7 p.m.
