CONCERT: REQUEIM Concert

REQUIEM, conducted by Nicholas Bannan, comprises three musical works that communicate the conviction that the human spirit survives mortality. Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments was written as a personal memorial to his friend, the French composer Claude Debussy, and embraces elements of Russian Orthodox lament. Brahms' Requiem features soloists Toni Johnson and Andrew Foote as well as members of the choirs of Hale School and Penrhos College. Setting the composer's own selection of texts from the Bible and presenting a structure parallel to the Catholic Requiem Mass, the work is replete with musical references to the composer's Renaissance and Baroque forbears. A set of motets and partsongs on the theme of rest and remembrance completes this program for the weekend preceding ANZAC Day.