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Brahms Requiem

Sunday, November 6, 2022

HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH

3345 LEXINGTON ROAD

3:00 PM | $25 | 90 MIN

GUEST CONDUCTOR:  JOHN H. DICKSON 

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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.

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VIDEO LECTURE
Presented by John Hale:

John Hale 10/30/2022
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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

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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.  

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