The Chattanooga premiere of Dan Forrest's new Requiem for the Living will take place on Saturday, May 2, at 7 p.m. at the First Baptist Church of Chattanooga, at the corner of Sixth Street and Cameron Hill. Choral Arts of Chattanooga will be presenting the concert.
Choral Arts' artistic director, Michael Devine, said he is excited about this performance, because even though this work was just published last year, it has already become very popular.
The Requiem consists of five movements: Introit - Kyrie, Vanitas Vanitatum (based on texts from Job and Ecclesiastes), Agnus Dei, Sanctus, and Lux Aeterna. The choir will be accompanied by a chamber orchestra of seven instruments.
The concert will also include Linda Tutas Haugen's Songs of Hope and Promise, a trilogy of spiritual pieces which are settings of Scriptural texts and hymns, as well as the well-known spiritual "There Is a Balm in Gilead."
Admission to the concert will be $20 for adults, $10 for seniors, $5 for students with ID, and free for children 12 and under.
This is the 30th-anniversary year of Choral Arts of Chattanooga.