A COVID Requiem: Music for Remembrance

Name: A COVID Requiem
Start: 2021-09-24T19:30
End: 2021-09-24T21:30
Location: St. James Cathedral

We all need ways to grieve the losses due to COVID-19. Cappella Romana offers here the rarely heard funeral service for mixed voices by the late Sir John Tavener, with Byzantine funeral chants composed by John Michael Boyer for Sir John’s funeral in 2013. These works help us to embrace courage and hope for the future.

Performed in memory of those who have died from COVID-19.

Remembrances

For this program, we invite you to share one or more names of those you’ve lost to COVID-19, through a secure form. During the program, we will display these names in solemn remembrance.

Memory eternal, may they rest in peace.

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Video Premiere Date: 1 Oct 2021

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Program

Sir John Tavener (1944–2013) Panikhida (Choral Memorial Service) (1986) John Michael Boyer (b. 1978) Byzantine Chants for a Funeral, in English (2013)

Artists on this Program

Alexander Lingas, music director and founder of Cappella Romana

Alexander Lingas, Music Director of Cappella Romana, is a Reader in Music at City University London and a Fellow of the University of Oxford’s European Humanities Research Centre. He received his Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from the University of British… Read More…