'John Rutter's Requiem?' The last time I checked, he was still very much alive, aged 76.
Seriously, though, there's no such thing as a 'concert Mass' per se, although a Mass setting can be, and often is, given a concert performance. Rutter's Requiem is not actually a Mass but was written as a concert piece and combines settings of some of the Latin texts of the Requiem Mass with settings of English texts taken from the Anglican funeral tradition.
That said, it's an appealing work in an unashamedly conservative musical style, and should sound well in a spacious acoustic which I'm sure St Anne's provides.
I got it the first time. There was nothing like "Requiem for the repose of the soul of John Rutter" or, +John Rutter's Requiem". Not every molehill has to become a mountain.
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'John Rutter's Requiem?' The last time I checked, he was still very much alive, aged 76.
Seriously, though, there's no such thing as a 'concert Mass' per se, although a Mass setting can be, and often is, given a concert performance. Rutter's Requiem is not actually a Mass but was written as a concert piece and combines settings of some of the Latin texts of the Requiem Mass with settings of English texts taken from the Anglican funeral tradition.
That said, it's an appealing work in an unashamedly conservative musical style, and should sound well in a spacious acoustic which I'm sure St Anne's provides.
I got it the first time. There was nothing like "Requiem for the repose of the soul of John Rutter" or, +John Rutter's Requiem". Not every molehill has to become a mountain.
ByzRus
We all got it the first time. I know that irony doesn't work on the internet; now I realize that humour doesn't either.
Oh, didn't realize as it just seemed like a sea of correction.
Christ is Risen
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