More Information:
This concert is approximately 2 hours, 10 minutes in length, including one intermission. Dona Nobis Pacem is sung in English, Ein Deutsches Requiem is sung in German.
Texts and translations are included in the concert program
Guest artists:
Cindy Koistinen
Peter Barrett
Composer bios & musical excerpts:
Ralph Vaughan Williams & Dona Nobis Pacem
Friday 7 November 2008 8:00 PM
Pre-Concert Chat at 7:15 PM
Yorkminster Park Baptist Church
1585 Yonge Street (north of St. Clair)
Music to preserve civilization - and our souls.
A contemporary secular cantata and a deeply moving human requiem. A fitting Remembrance Day tribute.
Noel Edison, conductor
Cindy Koistinen, soprano
Peter Barrett, baritone
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir
Festival Orchestra
Sponsored by Michael & Janet Scott
“…a man divine as myself is dead…” -- Walt Whitman
- Dona Nobis Pacem, R. Vaughan Williams
- Ein Deutsches Requiem, Johannes Brahms