The two Requiems by Gabriel Faur\u00e9 and Maurice Durufl\u00e9 on this program represent two masterpieces of French music and they have a great deal in common. Both composers were excellent organists as well as meticulous and self-critical composers: Faur\u00e9 took 20 years to complete his Requiem while Durufl\u00e9 took six to finish his. Both scored their works for choir, 2 soloists, organ and orchestra and instead of emphasizing the dramatic emotion of the Day of Judgement preferred by other composers like Mozart and Verdi, they took a more atmospheric and peaceful approach to the Mass for the Dead. These works differ most in their strengths: the charming and popular Faur\u00e9 was a master of \u201cthe unfolding melody\u201d while Durufl\u00e9, writing a half-century later, was greatly interested in scoring and orchestration. Both qualities come together in this concert and reinforce what Faur\u00e9 described as \u201ca very human feeling of faith in eternal rest.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Toronto Choral Society<\/strong>\u00a0was founded in 1845, to foster a positive musical environment in which members can learn and develop both musical ability and choral repertoire. In addition, TCS aims to be an integral part of the community of Toronto, presenting important works from the traditional choral repertoire, exploring the music of the many cultures that make up our community, and making an active contribution to the life of the city by participating in community events.<\/p>\n Featuring<\/strong><\/p>\n The Talisker Players<\/p>\n Beste Kalender – Mezzo Soprano<\/p>\n Dion Mazerolle – Baritone<\/p>\n William O\u2019Meara – Organist<\/p>\n Geoffrey Butler – Artistic Director and Conductor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The two Requiems by Gabriel Faur\u00e9 and Maurice Durufl\u00e9 on this program represent two masterpieces of French music and they have a great deal in common. Both composers were excellent organists as well as meticulous and self-critical composers: Faur\u00e9 took 20 years to complete his Requiem while Durufl\u00e9 took six to finish his. Both scored […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[5050],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/60510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/60510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60514,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/60510\/revisions\/60514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60510"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=60510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}