Requiem for a son : response to a death by polio

2013-09-18

University of Virginia. School of Medicine

In September 1925, while the family of English composer, Herbert Howells, was on vacation in the English countryside, their son, nine-yer-old Michael Howells fell ill with polio and died in London three days later. Howells channeled his grief into the composition of the "Requiem," which drew heavily on an earlier, unpublished work. In this Medical Center Hour, fourth-year medical student and musician Rondy Michael Lazaro explores the historical context of polio in the 1930s and how the loss of Howells's young son played out in the composer's music. Mr. Lazaro conducts a chamber chorus in the performance of two movements from Howell's "Requiem." 

Co-presented with the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series

Lazaro, Rondy Michael (Speaker); Lazaro, Rondy Michael (Conductor); Childress, Marcia Day (Moderator); University of Virginia. School of Medicine

Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

Filmed lectures

Requiems -- Excerpts; Poliomyelitis -- history

Medical Center Hour

Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

English

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1 online resource (1 video file, 46:20 min.) : sound, color

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