Name: Brahms Requiem
Start: 2023-07-21T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-07-22T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Millennium Park

Organization

Grant Park Music Festival

Conductor

Carlos Kalmar

Singer

Soprano

Maeve Höglund

Baritone

Hugh Russell

Orchestra

The Grant Park Orchestra

Others

The Grant Park Chorus

Brahms Requiem

Chicago

United States

Millennium Park

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Public

The Seven Last Words of the Unarmed

A German Requiem

Approved

Carlos Kalmar leads the Grant Park Orchestra with the acclaimed Grant Park Chorus and soloists in Johannes Brahms' choral masterpiece A German Requiem*, written for the bereaved after the death of the composer's mother. The concert opens with another choral tribute, Joel Thompson' chilling cantata Seven Last Words of the Unarmed. Each movement is a setting of the last words uttered by seven unarmed men who were killed by police officers or by vigilantes—Kenneth Chamberlain, Trayvon Martin, Amadou Diallo, Michael Brown, Oscar Grant, John Crawford, and Eric Garner. The Festival welcomes soloists Maeve Höglund and baritone Hugh Russell.

During the Brahms Requiem, members of the Grant Park Orchestra will play instruments provided by Violins of Hope, a private collection of violins, violas, and cellos that once belonged to Jewish musicians before and during the Holocaust. The presentation of these instruments is hosted by JCC Chicago.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble