Current Season
Brahms Requiem
Sunday, November 6, 2022
HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH
3345 LEXINGTON ROAD
3:00 PM | $25 | 90 MIN
GUEST CONDUCTOR: JOHN H. DICKSON
We are thrilled to be able to present one of the greatest choral orchestral masterworks of all time, the Brahms Requiem. Out of his own sorrows Brahms created this remarkable expression of both the pain of loss and the comfort which can be found. He chose his own texts rather than using the traditional church movements. It is a sacred, if non-liturgical, expression of the profound emotions experienced by those who mourn in any language.
It will be accompanied by Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music, also an ageless masterpiece, a tender and much loved work.
VIDEO LECTURE
Presented by John Hale:
Faure, Lauridsen and Corigliano
Sunday, March 12, 2023
HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH
3345 LEXINGTON ROAD
3:00 PM | $25 | 90 MIN
GUEST CONDUCTOR: JOHN H. DICKSON
We will hear three profound works in a variety of styles. Faure's Requiem, the best-known of his major works, gives us beautiful melodies and leaves us with a sense of eternal rest and consolation. Lux Aeterna by Morton Lauridsen has been considered a "probing, serene work containing an elusive and indefinable ingredient which leaves the impression that all the questions have been answered." John Corigliano, an American who has won an Oscar, Grammys and a Pulitzer for his compositions, set the Dylan Thomas poem Fern Hill to music It explores poetic themes around Eden, childhood innocence and the transition to adulthood.
VIDEO LECTURE
Presented by John Hale: