CU-Mansfield Festival Chorus to Perform April 14
PA (04/08/2024) — The Commonwealth University-Mansfield Festival Chorus will perform Requiem by John Rutter and Creation (A Rock Cantata) by David Bobrowitz and Steven Porter on Sunday, April 14, at 2:30 p.m. in Steadman Theatre. The performances will include a chamber ensemble and a rock band. Featured soloists will be Abbi Coon, Jessica Strouse, Steven Shumway, and Rob Garrison.
John Rutter's Requiem is a musical setting of parts of the Latin Requiem with added psalms and biblical verses in English. Five of its seven movements are based on text from the Latin Requiem Mass. The second movement is a setting of Out of the Deep (Psalm 130) and the sixth movement is an anthem The Lord is My Shepherd (Psalm 23), which Rutter had earlier written and the Festival Chorus performed at the Choral Collage this past fall. The first movement of Requiem combines the Introit and Kyrie and the third is Pie Jesu with a soprano solo. The central movement is a lively Sanctus, followed by Agnus Dei and finally Lux Aeterna.
After hearing an NPR broadcast of Haydn's Creation in 1969, David Bobrowitz wrote a new version of the 2000-year-old story using the late 60s and early 70s rock idiom. Porter first worked on framing the lyrics using modern language to the seven-day story of the Creation. Over the past 50 years, choruses of all ages have performed The Creation (A Rock Cantata). Mansfield choirs performed it in 1996.
The Festival Chorus is a mixed chorus of about sixty voices open to all university students and community singers. Large-scale performances with orchestra and professional soloists have included Handel's Messiah, Orff's Carmina Burana, Haydn's Creation and Mass in Time of War, Mendelssohn's Elijah, Bach's Mass in B Minor, and the Requiems by Brahms, Faure, Mozart, Rutter, and Verdi. The Festival Chorus has produced numerous recordings.
The concert is free and open to the public.
Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania
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