John Rutter: Requiem
Choir of St Colman's College, Violet Hill
Sunday, November 27 @ 7pm
Cathedral of Ss Patrick & Colman, Newry
Retiring collection in aid of St Johns House, Southern Area Hospice.
Performance duration: 75 mins approx.
On Sunday, November 27 at 7.00pm, the choir of St Colman's College will sing John Rutters Requiem. For the fifty-five students involved, the performance will be the culmination of a ten-week study of one of the best-loved and most widely performed choral works of the twentieth century, averaging 200 performances a year.
The texts (in Latin and English) are from the Missa pro Defunctis, the Book of Common Prayer and the Psalms. The seven sections form an arch-like meditation on the themes of life and death: prayers on behalf of all humanity, psalms, personal prayers to Christ and in the central Sanctus an affirmation of divine glory. In a recent radio interview, the seventy-one year old composer John Rutter stated that he had wanted to write a Requiem accessible to those without training in music. He stated that everyone in the world experiences some kind of loss or bereavement in different ways and that by feeling admitted to the music, anybody could write their own personal Book of Remembrance over it.
Everybody is welcome.