Pacific Chorale performs Lang's "Match Girl Passion," Fauré's "Requiem"

New Concert

Pacific Chorale performs Lang's "Match Girl Passion," Fauré's "Requiem"

Date: March 17, 2011

by Ryan McSweeney

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Location: California, USA

Choir type: Professional Choirs

Voicing: Mixed

DAUGHTER OF LIGHT

Sunday, April 17, 2011 at 5:30 p.m.

Concert preview with Robert Istad at 4:30 p.m.

Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall

Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Costa Mesa, CA

Performers:

John Alexander Singers • Pacific Chorale • Pacific Symphony

Zanaida Robles, soprano • James Martin Schaefer, baritone • Lori Loftus, organ

John Alexander, conducting

Program:

Giacomo Carissimi: “Plorate filii Israel” from Jephte

David Lang:The Little Match Girl Passion (Southern California premiere of the choral version)

Gabriel Fauré: Requiem in D minor, Op. 48

Pacific Chorale presents David Lang’s The Little Match Girl Passion, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Music, and Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem. The 140-voice Chorale and the 24-voice John Alexander Singers will be joined by Pacific Symphony for this concert, which also features Giacomo Carissimi’s choral lament “Plorate filii Israel” from the oratorio Jephte. April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, and at this concert Pacific Chorale will pay tribute to the work done by area organizations in combating this critical issue.

For more information about the concert, call (714) 662-2345 or visit http://tinyurl.com/daughter-of-light

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