A Covid Requiem: Music for Remembrance
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.
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
John Michael Boyer, Cappella Romana associate music director
John Boyer has been well known to Cappella Romana audiences since 1999, as a regular member of the ensemble, soloist, and guest director. Boyer makes his Cappella Romana début as the ensemble’s new Associate Music Director with this program, having… Read More…PERFORMANCES
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