The Littleton Chorale
P.O. Box 206
Littleton, Colorado 80160

Requiem by Karl Jenkins - Colorado Premiere

with the Colorado Chamber Orchestra

An innovative and fresh new work that has reached critical acclaim in Europe!
"... the ultimate in postmodern Requiems..." - Music Week

Saturday, November 1, 2008
7:30 PM

Littleton United Methodist Church
5894 S. Datura, Littleton

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Released in 2005, Requiem is an album by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins. In this work, Jenkins interjects movements featuring Japanese death poems in the form of a haiku with those traditionally encountered in a Requiem Mass. At times, the Latin text is sung below the text of the haiku.

Jenkins moves between the liturgical view of death and that observed in the natural world. As the work progresses the contrasting spheres move closer together, with the last two haiku settings appearing within the Benedictus and Agnus Dei. The instrumentation adopts a deliberate oriental air, with Japanese shakuhachi (though traditional flute remains an alternative), Arabic darabuca, Japanese daiko and frame drums.