FAURÉ: REQUIEM

Sunday, April 29, 2018, at 4pm First Presbyterian Church, Bozeman

Many works composed for liturgical contexts have become canonized and are now considered appropriate for performance in concert. Yet, what is often lost in this translation is how that original purpose, liturgical function, shaped their creation.

In our presentation of Fauré’s Requiem, we draw from the liturgy of the Requiem Mass — the opening prayer is replaced with a Native American study on listening to the earth, the reading with a contemporary reflection on peace, and the psalm is a contemporary setting of Psalm 84, composed in response to the immigration crisis and the displacement of people(s).

Program:

Earth Teach Me Quiet by Ēriks Ešenvalds
The Fruit of Silence by Pēteris Vasks
and the swallow by Caroline Shaw
Requiem in D minor, Op. 48 by Gabriel Fauré

with Else Trygstad-Burke, cello, Suzanne Ford, bass, Cami Kohler, violin, Mary Landeen, viola, Peter Landeen, cello, Matthew O’Sullivan, organ, Madeleine Price, viola, Karen Thielen, harp, Jeffrey Vick, marimba & Laurel Yost, piano

Concert artwork by Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854–1941).