LEWISTON — The Bates College Choir, conducted by John Corrie, will perform Fauré’s Requiem and Lauridsen’s “Lux Aeterna” at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 29-30 in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.
First composed in 1888 and revised a dozen years later, the Fauré Requiem is a setting of the traditional Roman Catholic Mass for the Dead, with the text significantly altered. Today the Requiem is both the best-known piece by this French composer and one of the best-loved treatments of the Mass for the Dead.
Lauridsen wrote “Lux Aeterna” in 1997. A 25-minute work in five movements, it’s a setting for various Latin texts about light.
“I composed ‘Lux Aeterna’ in response to my Mother’s final illness,” the composer wrote, “and found great personal comfort and solace in setting to music these timeless and wondrous words about Light, a universal symbol of illumination at all levels — spiritual, artistic and intellectual.”
Admission is free, but tickets are required. For more information, contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.
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