Requiem

for chorus and chamber orchestra

Traditional Requiem text, and from Psalm 150, translated by Hannah Lash (Eng./Ger.)

chorus and chamber orchestra

Edition: Performance material

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With my Requiem, I aimed to compose a piece that was at once highly personal and also non-specific. It does not memorialize any one death, but is an expression of sorrow resulting from the understanding of the ephemeral nature of life, and of my deepest pain and fear about losing those dearest to me. It is about our fragility, and our tragic knowledge of this fragility. The text is a translation of the original Latin Requiem text, which I found necessary to re-imagine in my own secular language, reframing it in ways I could more fully connect to than the original or any existing translation. Hannah Lash

Orchestral Cast

1 · 1 · 1 · 1 - 1 · 0 · 0 · 0 - P. (Crot. · Glsp. · Vib) (1 Spieler) - Hfe. - Str. (min. 1 · 1 · 1 · 1 · 1, max. 9 · 8 · 7 · 6 · 5)

Content

I Requiem Aeternam
II Kiyrie Eleison
III Dies Irae
IV Sanctus
V Agnus Dei
VI De profundis clamavi
VII Lux Aeterna
VIII Libera Me

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Title:

Requiem

for chorus and chamber orchestra

Traditional Requiem text, and from Psalm 150, translated by Hannah Lash (Eng./Ger.)

Language:

German, English

Edition:

Performance material

Publisher/Label:

Schott Music

Year of composition:

2015

Duration:

35 ′

World Premiere:

September 24, 2016 · New Haven, CT (USA)
Sprague Memorial Hall, Yale University
Conductor: Jeffrey Douma · Philharmonic Orchestra of Yale · Yale Choral Artists · Choir director: Jeffrey Douma

Commissioned work :

Commissioned by and composed for Jeffrey Douma, the Yale Choral Artists, and the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale