John Rutter’s REQUIEM

Performed by Dearborn First UMC Chancel Choir
Featuring guest soloists and instrumentalists
Conducted by Bob Barnhart, DFUMC Music Director

SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 3:30 P.M.
Dearborn First UMC • 22124 Garrison St., Dearborn
ADMISSION: FREE, but free-will offering is always accepted

Come experience this beautiful, somber, yet hopeful and light-filled composition appropriate as we enter Holy Week.

Barrier-free parking in the church lot at the rear of the building. Free parking also located across Garrison in the city lot, and at the curb on Garrison.

Please enter the double glass doors marked “A” off the parking lot at the back of the building.

About John Rutter’s Requiem:

Following the practice of Brahms and Fauré, Rutter does not use a complete text of the Roman Catholic Missa pro defunctis but instead selected various texts, some from the Requiem Mass, some from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.  The seven sections of the work form an arch-like meditation on the themes of life and death.  The first and last movements are prayers to God on behalf of all humanity. The second and sixth are psalms. The third and fifth are personal prayers to Jesus Christ. The Sanctus, which the composer describes as “celebratory and affirmative,” is the center and is an affirmation of divine glory, accompanied by bells as it is in the Roman Mass. READ MORE