APRIL 12, 2008

EVENTS
Pre Concert Lecturers (Insights)
Dr. Erica Muhl
Musical Circus
Braggin' About Brass

VERDI
Messa da requiem
KELLEY NASSIEF, SOPRANO
CARMELLA JONES, MEZZO-SOPRANO
STUART NEILL, TENOR
Nmon Ford, bass-baritone
THE OCCIDENTAL CHORALE

Honoring the beloved author and humanist Alessandro Manzoni, Verdi’s Requiem expresses the emptiness that follows the loss of a life, the recognition of sins amidst the call to Judgment, and the ultimate, unassailable hope for redemption. Operatic in its dramatic shifts and emotive power, the Requiem achieves a transcendence that goes beyond the recognition of a particular life, and instead achieves a recognition of all human life.

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