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Sweet Sorrow: The
Verdi Requiem
Michael Morgan, Conductor
January 25,
2008
Friday, 8:00pm, Paramount Theatre, Oakland
Pre-concert speaker: John
Kendall Bailey
Program
GIUSEPPE
VERDI REQUIEM (1874)
Jonita
Lattimore, soprano
Patrice Houston,
mezzo-soprano
Dan Snyder, tenor
Kirk
Eichelberger, bass
Oakland
Symphony Chorus
Lynne Morrow, Music Director
We'll be joined by the
Oakland Symphony Chorus and four extraordinary soloists for one of the greatest
works ever written for orchestra and chorus -- the Verdi Requiem. This
intensely dramatic work, one of the few non-operatic works that Verdi wrote,
was intended as a monument to the great Italian poet and novelist Alessandro
Manzoni. The music conveys a great depth of emotion, from its quiet, somber
opening to the explosive depiction of God's wrath, and will leave you with a
sense of wonder and awe.
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Concert presented by
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"The evening's brightest vocal discovery was Jonita Lattimore... a
beautiful well schooled and expressive soprano voice that is surely destined
for great things." - Chicago Tribune
"Houston sang with large, lustous tone and
hair-raising intensity." - Contra Costa Times
"Dan
Snyder was terrific, singing his demanding part with passionte intensity."
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
"[Eichelberger is] a gifted
singer." - San Francisco Classical Voice
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