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Meditations on Memento Mori
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Tuesday, November 2, 2021, 8:00 PMAs we celebrate All Souls Day, and look ahead to the last Sundays of the Liturgical Year, we think, and plan for, our own death. From Memento Mori to In Paradisum, this program includes music based on funeral texts; hymn-based works around the inevitability of death; and the last compositions and musical testaments of César Franck and Johannes Brahms. The program ends with music based on Gregorian chant and the Apocalypse as told in various passages of Revelations, and Marcel Dupré reminds us of the resurrection. Some works are reflective and quiet; others are tumultuous, but all in some way represent the human voice crying out at the inevitability of death on earth. The full complement of organ sounds frames meditation on a gamut of emotions, particularly after this pandemic year. Program notes will be provided to connect the listener to the texts of the chants, hymns, and expressive gestures in the music.
