Featured Music on Palm Sunday
This Palm Sunday, March 29, the Chancel Choir will present the 1985 Requiem of John Rutter (b. 1945), accompanied by harp, organ, oboe, flute, cello, and timpani. How does a Mass for the Dead work on Palm Sunday, you might wonder? Rutter’s Requiem is a combination of texts found in the Book of Psalms as well as the traditional Mass for the dead. Rutter selected the texts and gave them beautiful soaring melodies and rich, dramatic harmonies that occasionally bring to mind the evocative film scores of John Williams (Star Wars: the Empire Strikes Back in particular!) In the context of… Read More