Requiem for the Living
By: Dan Forrest ; Bel Canto Company ; Welborn Young, conductor
Publisher: Hinshaw Music, Inc.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, NC
Language: eng
Format: CD
ISBN-13: 0728215049743
Copyright date: 2013
Notes: This Celebration premiere of Requiem for the Living, conducted by Welborn Young, was performed by the Bel Canto Company at the 2013 Hinshaw Music Celebration Concert, August 2, 2013 at Edenton Street United Methodist Church in Raleigh, North Carolina. - Container insert.

In some cases, the traditional texts have been re-arranged slightly. Some extra-liturgical texts have been interpolated, and the traditional Dies Irae has been replaced by a biting essay on the vanity and pain of existence. The two movements which then follow have been inverted from their usual order: the Agnus Dei is offered as a prayer to the Lamb of God for an answer to pain and sorrow, and the Sanctus then follows as an awe-inspired response. - Container.

About Bel Canto Company: In its 30 years as the Triad's premier choral ensemble, the Bel Canto Company has engaged over 150 of the region's most talented singers, presented hundreds of concerts locally and throughout the Southeast, and performed thousands of pieces of music spanning the globe and the centuries. From its beginning in the 1982-1983 season until now, Bel Canto has been praised for its uniquely beautiful interpretation and sensitive tonal quality. - Container insert.

About the conductor: Welborn Young is the Artistic Director and conductor of Bel Canto. In addition, Dr. Young is currently Director of Choral Activities and Associate Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where he was the recipient of the 2007 Outstanding Teacher of the Year award. He directs the University Chamber Singers and teaches graduate conducting and graduate seminars in choral repertoire. - Container insert.

About the composer: Dan Forrest has been described as "a composer of substance" (Columbus Dispatch), with "superb choral writing ... full of spine-tingling moments" (Salt Lake Tribune). Born in 1978, Dan is a pianist-turned-composer whose music has already established a lasting presence in the US and abroad. Dan holds a doctoral degree in composition from the University of Kansas and a Masters degree in piano performance. He is a former professor of music at Bob Jones University, where he served as Department Head of Music Theory and Composition for several years. - Container.

Performers include: Bel Canto Company; Welborn Young, conductor; Donovan Elliott, boy soprano; Lindsey McConville Gallagher, soprano; Jeremy Whitener, tenor.
Table of contents: title: Introit - Kyrie (9:54); title: Vanitas Vanitatum (6:11); title: Agnus Dei (6:10); title: Sanctus (7:33); title: Lux Aeterna (8:54)