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Requiem by Eustache du Caurroy - TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR even if online sales have ended.

Sunday, November 6, 2011 from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM (PT)

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Ticket Type Sales End Price Fee Quantity
General Admission 11/6/11 at The National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi (SF) 4pm concert ($20 at door) Ended $18.00 $0.00
EMA Members, Students & Seniors 11/6/11 at The National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi (SF) 4pm concert ($20 at door) Ended $15.00 $0.00
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PLEASE NOTE: Online sales for the Sunday concert ends at 12PM of the day of concert. But, we will be selling tickets at the door! Doors open at 3:30pm. Thank you! 

 
Requiem Mass by Eustache du Caurroy (1549-1609)

The famous musical setting of the text of the Requiem Mass by the French composer Eustache du Caurroy is one of the finest of all Requiem settings. It was written in about 1590 and was performed at the funeral of the French king Henri IV. It was then used as a sort of “official requiem” at the funeral of subsequent French kings until the French Revolution.

Du Caurroy is now largely forgotten, but recently (thanks to the 400th anniversary of his death in 2009) there has been a distinct renewal of interest in his music. In his day, he was considered a consummate master of the polyphonic style and the greatest French composer of the late Renaissance. His suave melodic lines and sublime harmonies are placed entirely at the service of meaningful declamation of the words. In this, he is the perfect French counterpart to Byrd in England, Victoria in Spain, Lassus in Germany, and Palestrina in Italy.

Du Caurroy’s Requiem is one of the highest moments in the history of Catholic church music. It was composed under the influence of the ideas of the Counter Reformation, which saw music as a kind of prayer. The musical setting is intended to guide attentive listeners towards an intense meditation on the words. This approach is still possible for 21st-century audiences (including non Catholics and all non believers). In the case of the Requiemthe intense musical meditation is fundamentally existential. It becomes a reflection on the universal themes of the frailty of human Life and our reconciliation with the universal inexorability of Death. 

~Davitt Moroney


Chalice Consort presents Requiem by Eustache du Caurroy (1549-1609)
November 6, 2010 - 4 p.m.
The National Shrine of St. Franciso of Assisi, 610 Vallejo Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
Tickets: $20 at the door, $15 for advance online purchase. Children under 12 are free. Online ticket sales end at 12AM on day of concert.
Parking: http://www.shrinesf.org/findus.htm#3
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