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Contact: Meg Whalen, Director of Public Relations FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 24, 2011 Oratorio Singers of Charlotte Perform Howells Requiem The Oratorio Singers of Charlotte will perform an evening of choral music at an Oratorio-only concert on Friday, February 25 at Myers Park Baptist Church. Oratorio Director Scott Allen Jarrett will conduct. The concert’s centerpiece is a Requiem composed in 1936 by the British composer Herbert Howells following the death of his nine-year-old son, Michael Kendrick Howells, from polio. The hauntingly beautiful a cappella Requiem is not a traditional setting of the Roman Catholic Mass for the dead, but is insteada six-movement work that includes settings of Psalms 23 and 121, Salvator Mundi, Requiem aeternam, and I heard a voice from heaven. The work features soprano, tenor, and baritone soloists, who will be drawn from the Oratorio Singers roster. Also on the program is Hail, Gladdening Light, by the Irish composer Charles Wood, with words by John Keble. The piece is an anthem for double chorus and highlights the exquisite beauty found in the fullness of eight-part texture. Brahms’s Nänie, which will be performed with the Charlotte Symphony in April, receives a preview performance here. Nänie is a setting of a poem by Friedrich von Schiller and was composed as a tribute to painter Anselm Feuerbach, who was a personal friend of Brahms. Because of its complexity, it is rarely performed. The Oratorio Singers of Charlotte is the official chorus of the Charlotte Symphony, comprised of more than 130 volunteer singers. In its mission, the chorus “seeks to foster appreciation of and support for choral music as an art form.” The hour-long concert will be performed without intermission. Tickets are $10 and are available by calling the Symphony ticket office at 704-972-2000. ### |
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