“Trinity Requiem” was commissioned by Robert Ridgell for his Trinity Youth Group, comprising young people from the five boroughs of New York. Most of the performers were born around the year 2000, too late for any personal recollections of the tragedy the music attempts to address. Moran tried to keep his musical vocabulary direct, and was impressed with the choir’s sense of focus.
“When Robert Ridgell asked me to compose [the piece] for his youth chorus… my immediate reaction was ‘No, Robert… having a youth chorus sing a requiem strikes me as slightly ghoulish, and a bit unnerving.’
Then “I began to get flashbacks of numerous stories I had heard throughout my life of children who had lost their entire families from plagues, wars, endless catastrophes, vicious governments, etc…. this is what our requiem is ‘about.’”
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