Our worship service on November 1 will center upon the observance of All Saints’ Sunday as we celebrate communion and honor the lives of those congregation members who have died during the last year. We pray that the musical offering of selections from Mozart’s Requiem Mass will comfort all of us as we remember those saints amongst us.
As Mozart’s final work before his untimely death at the age of 35, his Requiem Mass setting has long captured the public’s imagination, partly because of the many mysteries surrounding its composition. Some have speculated that Mozart met his death at the hands of a jealous rival, while others claim that the requiem itself drained the life from its composer. Still other mysteries swirl around how much of the composition was completed by Mozart himself and how much by contemporaries called in to complete the work. But in the end, Mozart’s spirit did live on through this work, and it continues to inspire choirs, orchestra players, and awestruck audiences alike as we listen to and present his ethereal music.
Made possible by the generous support of the Rule Family Foundation, members of the Adult Choir and the SPC Chamber Choir with soloists Melanie Hanna, soprano, Satia Spencer, alto, Luke Angelo, tenor, and Jon Davies, bass, accompanied by Adam Savacool, Kiril Laskarov, Meredith Hicks, Timothy McDuff, and David Gerstein are honored to present to our congregation, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem Mass in D minor, K. 626.