Thursday lunchtime at Metropolitan United was, I think, the first time I’ve attended a recital of music for soprano and clarinet. The performers were soprano Noelle Slaney and clarinettist Matheus Coelho. Most of the music was performed “as written” with a few pieces rearranged by Noelle.
Thursday’s noon hour concert at Metropolitan United featured soprano Teresa Tucci with pianist Ivan Jovanovic in a varied programme of opera arias, art song and musical theatre numbers.
Last Thursday lunchtime’s Noon at Met concert was given by the UoT’s Schola Cantorum conducted by Daniel Taylor with Jonathan Oldengarm at Met’s very impressive organ. The music was Fauré’s rather unusual Requiem op.45. I say unusual because it’s much more gentle and lyrical than most, not least because there’s no Dies Irae. That’s cut except for the Pie Jesu section. Also it finishes with the hopeful In Paradisum from the Burial Service. Apparently this is because Fauré was most definitely not an orthodox Catholic rather lying somewhere on a spectrum from theist to agnostic but obviously still aware that we all die and we all grieve.
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