Good Friday Concerts Listed
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Church of the Good Shepherd, Arcadia
Lara Wickes, principal oboe with Santa Barbara Symphony, performs with Barbara Varellas, piano and Paula Fehrenbach, cello in Rutter's "Requiem" on Good Friday at Church of the Good Shepherd, Arcadia.
The Good Friday concert at the Church of the Good Shepherd (United Methodist) Church will perform John Rutter’s “Requiem” with the Chancel Choir and musicians Barbara Varellas, piano, Paula Fehrenbach, cello and Lara Wickes, oboe at 7:30 p.m. in the church sanctuary. Timothy Durkovic, Music Director at the church, conducts.
Rutter composed this requiem for a Roman Catholic Church mass, but it has been performed universally due to its strong appeal to contemporary audiences. The work, which opens with the words, “Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and may light eternal shine upon them”, was written in 1985.
The Church of the Good Shepherd, 400 W. Duarte Rd., Arcadia.
First Presbyterian Church of Monrovia
The choir of the First Presbyterian Church of Monrovia, under the direction of Peter Green, Director of Music at the church, performs Gabriel Fauré’s “Requiem” at 7:30 p.m. with orchestra.
Unlike Requiem compositions that preceded it, Fauré, according to various sources, moved into new musical territory with a style later adopted by Ravel and Debussy, leaving behind the deeply somber Germanic styles of over 200 years and providing, as Fauré himself said, “something new, a sort of Lullaby of Death”. Fauré’s work was premiered in its orchestral version in 1900 and heard in the United States in 1931. The April 2 performance of this work at the church will be with orchestra. The First Presbyterian Church of Monrovia, 101 E. Foothill Blvd, Monrovia. For more information, please call (626) 358-3297, Ext. 205.
Pasadena Presbyterian Church, Pasadena
The Friends of Music Concerts sponsors the performance of Karl Jenkins’ “Stabat Mater”, a Good Friday Devotional Concert on April 2 at 7:30 p.m. performed by the Kirk Choir, Pasadena Singers, soloists and Friends of Music orchestra. Dr. Timothy Howard conducts. There is a pre-concert lecture by Star-News music critic Bob Thomas at 7:00 p.m.
Karl Jenkins, born in 1944 in Wales, has a distinguished musical career that spans jazz, advertising jingles, motion picture soundtracks and a series of “serious” compositions such as the “Stabat Mater”, the dramatic portrayal of the story of Mary, the mother of Jesus, at the foot of the cross.
The Pasadena Presbyterian Church, 585 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. For more information, please call (626) 793-2191.
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