Music_FaureRequiem-(1).jpg This year, on Sunday, September 11th, at 5 pm, we will begin our new Cathedral Concert season with a performance of Gabriel Fauré's renowned Requiem in D minor, in honor of the tenth anniversary of the attacks on New York, Washington, DC and Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001.

Written in 1889, the Fauré Requiem is one of the most beloved musical compositions the world has ever known. Asked about his inspiration for the Requiem, Fauré once wrote:

It has been said that my Requiem does not express the fear of death and someone has called it a lullaby of death.

But it is thus that I see death: as a happy deliverance, an aspiration towards happiness above, rather than as a painful experience... Perhaps I have instinctively sought to escape from what is thought right and proper, after all the years of accompanying burial services on the organ! I know it all by heart. I wanted to write something different...

Everything I managed to entertain in the way of religious illusion I put into my Requiem, which moreover is dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest.

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