on hearing Brahms’s Requiem; views on death by Roger W. Smith On Monday, November 6, 2017, I attended a performance of A German Requiem, to Words of the Holy Scriptures (“Ein deutsches Requiem, nach Worten der heiligen Schrift”) by Johannes Brahms at Carnegie Hall in New York. The work was composed between 1865 and … Continue reading on hearing Brahms’s Requiem; views on death