The San Gabriel Chorale is happy to present our 2018-19 season
On Sunday November 4th, we will present a concert featuring Howard Goodall’s Eternal Light: A Requiem. This choral piece with orchestra and soloists combines the traditional text of the Latin requiem with moving modern poetry. This will be in tribute to the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, which occurred on November 11th, 1918.
Howard Goodall (1958 - ) is an English composer who has numerous works across many genres to his credit. He has composed a number of successful musicals, both sacred and secular choral works, and film and television scores. He has also produced award-winning music-based programming for TV and radio. One of his most performed works is Eternal Light: A Requiem which was originally conceived as a choral-orchestral-dance piece. Since its premiere in 2008, this work has been performed over 400 times around the world. One of the featured poems, “In Flanders Field,” by John McCrae, was written in 1915 from the battlefield in Ypres, Belgium.
We hope you can join us for this very moving remembrance of the Armistice of WW I. The concert is at Lois Perkins Chapel on the Southwestern University campus on Sunday November 4th at 4 pm.
