CONCERTS AT TRINITY CHURCH IN HONOR OF OUR FALLEN HEROS

TRINITY CHURCH IN LOWER MANHATTAN WILL HOST CONCERTS COMMEMORATING 9/11!

After performing at eucharistic services on Sunday, the Trinity Choir, conducted by Mr. Wachner, will sing two alternating programs of Bach cantatas (BWV 131 and 106) and motets at 1 p.m. Monday through Thursday at St. Paul’s Chapel. Trinity is also releasing a recording of the complete motets.

On Wednesday at 6 p.m. at Trinity Church the Episcopal parish’s youth chorus will give the first performance of “Trinity Requiem” by Robert Moran. On Thursday at 8 the Chiara String Quartet plays Richard Danielpour’s Quartet No. 6 (“Addio)” and Robert Sirota’s “Triptych.”

Those concerts lead up to a marathon on Friday: 10 concerts at Trinity and St. Paul’s, culminating in an evening performance of combined forces titled “Remember to Love” at Trinity that will include the last three movements of Brahms’s “German Requiem,” Bernstein’s “Chichester Psalms,” the “Dona Nobis Pacem” movement from Bach’s Mass in B minor, the Fauré Requiem and pieces by Duruflé, Randall Thompson, Marjorie Merryman, Lukas Foss and Anthony Furnivall. The violinist Gil Shaham will lend star power, along with the singers Anthony Roth Costanzo, Angela Meade, Jolle Greenleaf, Luca Pisaroni and Dashon Burton.

The Trinity Choir offers more Bach cantatas on Sept. 10 and 12 and performs at religious services on Sept. 11.

The emphasis on works by Duruflé, Fauré and Brahms and other gentle, soul-soothing music is no accident. The original idea, to perform Britten’s imposing “War Requiem,” was considered too expensive but also too burdened with an unfortunate title, despite its pacifist nature.



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