PERFORMANCE INFO:
Saturday, November 12, 2022
7:30 pm
Corpus Christi Cathedral
“Requiem,” the first concert of the 2022–2023 season of the Cathedral Concert series, is an offering of music as a healing balm for the soul. The major work of the evening will be the magnificent Requiem by Gabriel Fauré. This powerful piece stands out among the Requiem Mass settings for its more gentle, introspective character. The Requiem (or funeral Mass) takes its name from the Introit—the first words sung at the Mass—and is translated as “rest.” The performance is especially dedicated to those loved ones lost during the pandemic, and for those who lost loved ones during the pandemic period due to any cause, who may have been prevented from gathering with family and loved ones to hold funeral services. It is our hope that this music provides an opportunity for the community to come together to collectively mourn, heal, and to comfort and be comforted.
The Cathedral Concert Series provides opportunities for uplifting musical experiences for the people of south Texas. These experiences remain important as our society continues to emerge from the pandemic and its associated effects.
SEATING PASSES
Free seating passes are available to guarantee seating.
A free-will offering will be taken to support the Cathedral Concert Series.
We invite you to come and enjoy beautiful music in honor of those who have died and join in thanksgiving for the impact of their lives.
MORE INFO ON FAURÉ’S REQUIEM:
Gabriel Fauré composed his Requiem to reflect his own views on death, remarking, “It has been said that my Requiem does not express the fear of death and someone has called it a lullaby of death. But it is thus that I see death: as a happy deliverance, an aspiration towards happiness above, rather than as a painful experience.”
While Fauré said the work was not composed as a result of a personal tragedy or loss, its completion shortly after the death of his own mother was undoubtedly influenced in some way by this event. The work was popular while Fauré was alive, and was performed at his own funeral.
Fauré said in an interview shortly after the work’s completion, “Everything I managed to entertain by way of religious illusion I put into my Requiem, which moreover is dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest.”