Dark to Light will be an exciting audience-friendly program featuring movements from Schnittke’s Requiem and Carol Barnett’s Bluegrass Mass. Alfred Schnittke wrote his Requiem to be incidental music for Friedrich Schiller’s play Don Carlos. The producer of the play wanted “Catholic church music” to be performed in the background and Schnittke used the opportunity to write a full Requiem—in Soviet Russia at the time it was forbidden for any sacred music to be performed so this was the only way that Schnittke could write a Requiem and hear it performed. The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass, which was commissioned by Phillip Brunelle and VocalEssence, served as the centerpiece for the Festival Singers Inaugral concert in 2008 and we are delighted to become reacquainted with the work as we complete our fourth season. 

 

January 21, 2012 - 8:00 PM

Dr. Kevin Fenton, artistic director

 

First United Methodist Church of Orlando

142 E. Jackson St.

Orlando, FL