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November 6
Schütz
Distler
Schoenberg
Bach
January 15
Schütz
Harbison
Duruflé
March 12
Schütz
Monteverdi
Poulenc
Stravinsky
May 14
Schütz
November 6 at 8pm
Heinrich Schütz:
Musikalische Exequien
Hugo Distler:
Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied,
Op. 12, no. 1 from Geistliche Chormusik
Arnold Schoenberg:
Friede auf Erden
J.S. Bach:
Cantata BWV 8,
“Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben?”
Sonja Tengblad, Lisa Lynch, Luellen Best, Christine Swistro, sopranos
Gloria Raymond, alto
William Hite, Jason Sabol, Stephen Williams, tenors
Mark Andrew Cleveland, Benjamin Cole, Joshua Taylor, basses
The power and timelessness of Schütz’s music is on display in his Musikalische Exequien – music that stands near the top of the master’s creations. Coupled with one of Bach’s most serenely beautiful, warm and immensely humane cantatas, and Hugo Distler’s exhilarating Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, Arnold Schoenberg’s transcendent, visionary Friede auf Erden completes the program – a plea for peace that has moved our audiences every time we have performed it. It is time again.
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