Requiem by Maurice Duruflé
Dark Night of the Soul by Ola Gjeilo
Peaceable Kingdom by Randall Thompson
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Each of the works by the three composers on the program, Maurice Duruflé, Randall Thompson, and Ola Gjeilo, challenges the listener to face the worst and affirm the best in humanity. In Dark Night of the Soul, composed in 2010, Gjeilo weaves the human voices of a double chorus into an instrument in urgent conversation with piano and strings. Thompson’s 1936 work, The Peaceable Kingdom braids the warlike poetry of Isaiah’s Biblical prophecy into a modern plea for peace. In Duruflé’s 1948 Requiem, chorus, chamber orchestra, mezzo and baritone soloists, and organ summon traditional plainchant and the ritual of the Requiem Mass to reaffirm, today, the persistence of hope.