Our world-renowned musicians and performers will present an elaborate and exciting program on Sunday. Maestro Bruno Weil will be conducting one of the most dramatic and brilliant pieces of music from the Baroque era. St. Matthew's Passion is perhaps the most important, challenging and ambitious of all the music composed during the Baroque period. Bach's transcendent masterpiece has been compared through cultural impact to the Sistine Chapel paintings, the Divine Comedy by Dante, and the great cathedrals of Central Europe.
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Sundays – Requiem & Cantata July 20, 27, August 3 2:30pm |
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Tickets: $60, $45 Students/Active Military: $20 Sunset Theater |
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| J. S. Bach Cantata BWV 21, Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis |
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Johannes Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem, A German Requiem |
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Bruno Weil, Conductor Festival Orchestra Festival Chorale Festival Chorus Festival Youth Chorus
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Program Notes:
Because of its peculiar assortment of texts, the German Requiem, one of Johannes Brahms’ most inspired works, begs to know what precedent it can claim. Brahms’ choice of Biblical texts is implicit but eccentric. Find out why this work, above all others, is beloved of timpani players. The German Requiem shares its program with Bach’s cantata “Ich hatte viel bekümmernis,” similarly grieving and consoling, but with a rousing final affirmation, resplendent with trumpets and drums, “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain!”