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Event
Faure Requiem
Saturday, April 19, 2008 at 2:00 PM
S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium
Faure Requiem
Seattle Choral Company
Fred Coleman, conductor
Clint Kraus, organ
The Seattle Choral Company returns to Benaroya Hall on April 19, 2008, to present a rich worldwide tapestry of sacred and secular choral works.
Gabriel Faure's Requiem is luminous and shimmering, suffused by warmth and consolation. It is a rare gem in the French repertoire, performed and loved the world over. For this April performance of Faure's masterpiece, the magnificent Watjen Concert Organ will receive centerpiece attention, as played by Seattle organist, Clint Kraus.
Eric Whitacre (b. 1970), is one of the bright young stars in contemporary concert music, and has quickly become a much commissioned, published, and performed choral and symphonic composer. As a student at the Juilliard School of Music, he studied with eminent composers John Corigliano and David Diamond. His Five Hebrew Love Songs were dedicated to his wife, the Jerusalem-born soprano, Hila Plitmann. The lyrics, written by Plitmann in Hebrew, are delicately beautiful love poems, each capturing a moment shared between author and composer while on vacation in the Swiss Alps.
Accompanied by the ancient Vielle and Persian hand drums, the women of the Seattle Choral Company will present the first Seattle performance of From Behind the Caravan: Songs of Hafez, composed by St. Paul resident, Abbie Betinis (b. 1980). This seductive suite is based on the 14th century poems of Hafez, and brings to fruition the love, mysticism, and Sufi themes that have long pervaded Persian poetry.
The men's voices of the Seattle Choral Company will be spotlighted in Maurice Durufle's ethereal Messe cum jubilo (Mass with rejoicing) a Latin mass setting based on the Gregorian Mass IX. Completed as recently as 1966, Durufle's mass recalls monastic plainchant. It is as restrained as Faure's earlier setting of the requiem, and the results are both subtle and sublime.
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LocationBenaroya Hall
200 University Street
Seattle, WA 98101
United States
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| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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