Dan Forrest: Requiem For The Living: Mixed Choir And Piano/Organ

Commissioned by the Hickory NC Choral Society for their 35th anniversary season, Dan Forrest's Requiem For The Living is scored for mixed choir with solos for boy soprano and/or mezzo-soprano, soprano & tenor. The instrumentation is available for large orchestra or chamber ensemble. Combining both liturgical and non-liturgical texts, in some cases the traditional texts are slightly re-arranged for contextual emphasis.

This powerful five movement work projects a wide range of meaningful expression from a biting essay on the vanity and pain of existence, to a plea for mercy, and a celebration of eternal light. The work standsalone - but would be especially moving for all saints, Good Friday, or even Palm Sunday.

Movements: Introit - Kyrie Vanitas Vanitatum Agnus Dei Sanctus Lux Aeterna 3.

Instrumentations available on rental only:

1. Full orch. (HMB265a): 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 bb clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns (or 1-4: if performing with a large choir, horn lines may be doubled by a second player on each part), 2 bb trumpets, 2 trombones, bass trombone or trombone 3, tuba, percussion (1 player: suspended cymbal, crash cymbal, bass drum, triangle, glockenspiel, crotales (bowed), snare drum, low tom-tom (opt.)(or other low drum), timpani (3) (one player), harp, strings (min. Suggested count 4.4.2.2.1), full score.

2. Chamber version (HMB265b) - flute, oboe, horn in f (optional), combined percussion (one player: timpani, suspended cymbal, crash cymbal, triangle, glockenspiel, crotales (bowed), snare drum, low tom-tom (optional) (or other low drum), harp, violin, cello, organ, full score.

3. Expanded chamber version (HMB265c) - flute, oboe, horn in f(opt.), percussion from full orchestra version (1 player: suspended cymbal, crash cymbal, bass drum, triangle, glockenspiel, crotales (bowed), snare drum, low tom-tom (opt., or other low drum), timpani (3) from full orchestra version (1 player), harp, strings from full orchestra version