Friday, November 5 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, November 7 at 7:00 p.m.

Divine Word Chapel
Techny, Illinois

Free pre-concert lecture one hour before each performance

program

Schumann – Requiem, Op. 148

Bruckner – mass no. 3 in f minor

featuring

the Ars Viva Orchestra

and guest soloists
Michelle Areyzaga, soprano
Kurt R. Hansen, tenor
Teresa Brancaccio, alto
Peter Van De Graaff, bass

Alan Heatherington, Music Director

Celebrating the Schumann bicentennial

The Schumann Requiem is an incredibly beautiful and intensely expressive late work of which Peter Van De Graaff wrote: “That’s one of those pieces about which I think, ‘I know I’ll never sing that, but I can always dream!’ Wow!! Wonderful!!” And maestro Heatherington refers to the Bruckner mass in f minor as “the greatest setting of the mass text by any composer in the history of Western music.” Don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience both masterpieces in a single concert.