TGIF, Apr 3, 5:30pm
For Good Friday, our own Chancel Choir brings us the Requiem by Mozart, a dramatic and haunting piece which embodies themes of mortality and divine judgment, balancing dark, operatic intensity with serene, tender prayers. Doors to the sanctuary open at 5:15pm and the concert begins at 5:30pm. The concert is free with donations accepted.
Program
Requiem by W. A. Mozart, TGIF Choir of First Presbyterian Church
Soloists: Nancy Maret, Anne Bradley, Nina Brown, Cheryl McCalla, Michael Roybal, Tim Willson, and Travis Bregier
From The Guardian’s “Mozart’s Requiem: It’s about life, not death”
…Mozart set this liturgical text to music for a patron who had lost his young wife to illness earlier that year. But after his death, his widow, Constanze claimed that throughout Mozart’s last painful days he believed he was writing the Requiem for his own funeral. And he was. Even though it had to be completed by his contemporaries, the circumstances of the composition, combined with Mozart’s genius, make it no ordinary piece of music. It has the drama and humanity of his stage masterpieces. His operas wrestle with the beauty and complexity of being alive in the same way his Requiem grapples with the mystery of death. Composed by a man on the edge of consciousness, Mozart willed his last creation into life with his final breaths….