Requiem contains:
01. Canticle of the sky
02. Requiem Aeternam
03. Kyrie
04. Psalm 39
05. Dies Irae
06. Tuba Mirum
07. Liber Scriptus
08. Recordare
09. Rex Tremendae
10. Dedication (text by Walt Whitman: When lilacs last in the dooryard)
11. Sanctus (with some phrases by Martin Luther King jr.)
12. Memorial prayer (after the Jewish rite El Mole)
13. Lux Aeterna
14. Libera me
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An American Requiem for chorus and orchestra with SATB soloists. Duration: 65 min.
It intersperses the ancient Latin liturgical text of the Roman Catholic mass with modern English language poetry selected or written by Michael F. Sarda. An American Requiem is a new and important work of memorial music in the centuries-old tradition of honoring the memory of people of outstanding stature. This remarkable work of music, with no precedent in the history of American music, perpetuates a form that was illustrated in the past by such masters as Mozart, Berlioz, Fauré and Verdi, and more recently by Benjamin Britten and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Because it involves large musical forces, and goes beyond music to reach into the spiritual, may consider the Requiem as the most elaborate form of classical music.
An American Requiem was commissioned by the Art Renaissance Foundation and composed in 1993.
♫ 09. Rex Tremendae
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