Great Music in a Great Space Presents Fauré Requiem and Vaughan Williams Mass in G Minor March 20, 2013

The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine will continue the 2012/13 Great Music in a Great Space concert series with a performance of Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem and Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Mass in G Minor by the Cathedral Choir and Orchestra, led by Director of Cathedral Music Kent Tritle, on Wednesday, March 20th, at 7:30 p.m. at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue (at 112th Street), Manhattan.

Joining the Cathedral Choir and Orchestra for the performance will be acclaimed baritone Philip Cutlip and soprano Jamet Pittman. Both Requiem by Gabriel Fauré and Mass in G Minor by Ralph Vaughan Williams are ethereal masterworks that are a fitting prelude to Holy Week and Easter. Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Mass in G Minor for two choirs is one of the a cappella masterpieces of the early 20th century and pays homage to the English Tudor tradition. Gabriel Fauré’s sumptuous Requiem evokes not the sorrow of mortality, but the blissful eternity of the afterlife.

Under the leadership of Kent Tritle, Director of Cathedral Music and one of America’s leading choral conductors, Great Music in a Great Space is a series of public concerts inspired by world musical traditions and the Cathedral’s 100-year history of diverse and exhilarating musical events. Launched in 2012, Great Music in a Great Space resumes and re-imagines the legendary Cathedral concert and recital series from the 1980s, which showcased the most exciting composers and performers in the world of choral and orchestral music, consistently drawing capacity crowds. The 21st century iteration of this series features the Cathedral Orchestra and Choirs, made up of the finest choral singers in New York City. The concerts introduce a broad array of cultural idioms and explore choral, organ and orchestral music from around the world as well as from the Anglican tradition.

Tickets start at $25. For more information on this and future 2012/2013 series performances or to purchase tickets, please visit http://www.stjohndivine.org/GMGS_Choral.html.

DATE: Wednesday, March 20th
TIME: 7:30 PM

WHERE: The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine
1047 Amsterdam Avenue (at 112th Street)
Manhattan