Nov 6 2011 - 10:30am - 10:30pm
We will remember the saints who have gone before us with a special service in which our choir, with the able assistance of our friends at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Madison, will sing Fauré’s Requiem. The choirs will be accompanied by solo violin, harp and organ.
It's a special honor to have these talented singers with us, so please make them feel welcome.
Fauré said that he saw death "as a happy deliverance, an aspiration towards the happiness of the hereafter, rather than as a painful passing away." For this reason, Fauré's setting is remarkably subdued, omits entirely the Sequenz segment, with its visions of wrath and hellfire, and adds the Pie Jesu and In Paradisum texts, which are not part of the Requiem proper but emphasize the granting of eternal rest.
Special music will also be presented during communion and an extended prelude.
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