{"id":64081,"date":"2013-03-26T14:45:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T18:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=64081"},"modified":"2018-10-01T14:02:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T18:02:36","slug":"choir-spr13faure-lauridsen-on-college-choir-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/03\/26\/choir-spr13faure-lauridsen-on-college-choir-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Faur\u00e9, Lauridsen on College Choir program"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John Corrie conducts the Bates College Choir.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Bates College Choir, conducted by John Corrie, performs Faur\u00e9’s Requiem<\/em> and Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna<\/em> at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 29-30, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.<\/p>\n

Admission is free, but tickets are required. For more information, please contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

First composed in 1888 and revised a dozen years later, the Faur\u00e9 Requiem<\/em> is a setting of the traditional Roman Catholic Mass for the Dead, with the text significantly altered. Today the Requiem<\/em> is both the best-known piece by this French composer and one of the best-loved treatments of the Mass for the Dead.<\/p>\n

It is distinguished by a mood of “peacefulness and serenity,” in the words of music historian John Bawden. “The work often been described, quite justly, as a Requiem without the Last Judgment. . . . [It] is impossible not to be moved by the ethereal beauty of this humble masterpiece.”<\/p>\n

Lauridsen wrote Lux Aeterna<\/em> in 1997. A 25-minute work in five movements, it’s a setting for various Latin texts about light.<\/p>\n

“I composed Lux Aeterna<\/em> in response to my Mother’s final illness,” the composer writes, “and found great personal comfort and solace in setting to music these timeless and wondrous words about Light, a universal symbol of illumination at all levels — spiritual, artistic and intellectual.”<\/p>\n

“The piece is often compared to Brahms’ Requiem<\/em>, also written after the passing of the composer’s mother, but ‘without the 19th-century guilt’ — no Day of Judgment or gloom here, just generosity and radiance throughout,” writes Chicago Chamber Choir Artistic Director Timm Adams.<\/p>\n

“Lauridsen uses the chant-like melodies and sophisticated counterpoint of the high Renaissance, especially the music of Josquin, for his inspiration in this composition.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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