Upcoming Performances

Writing to the conductor of the 1868 Bremen premiere, Brahms confessed he would very gladly omit the 'German' from the title of his Requiem and simply call it a requiem for mankind. He chose every word of the text himself, from Luther's Bible, and left out the wrath, the judgment, and the prayers for the dead that define the Latin mass. What remains is a work addressed entirely to the living. It begins "Blessed are they that mourn" and ends on the same word it started with: blessed.

Kinnara last performed Ein Deutsches Requiem in 2014 alongside the Westminster Community Choir and Orchestra in Princeton, NJ. Returning to it in our twentieth-anniversary season means returning to it the only way it can be done, with a partner, and so Kinnara joins the chancel choir of Glenn Memorial Church for this monumental score on All Saints' Day, for everyone still here.