With Thanksgiving just around the corner and many families arriving to visit the weekend prior, Trinity Presbyterian Church is hoping to offer a way to spend quality time together with a grand performance of one of today’s best loved choral works–John Rutter’s Requiem.
Trinity Adult Choir to be joined by Glenside’s St Paul’s Lutheran Church Adult Choir with chamber orchestra and organ accompaniment on Sunday, Nov. 20 at 7pm. Admission is free and open to the Public. Donations welcome.
This free concert, the first of three, is being presented by Trinity Presbyterian Church, 499 Route 70 in Cherry Hill in conjunction with St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Glenside, PA, under the leadership of Trinity’s new Director of Music, James Batt and St Paul’s Lutheran Church’s Music Director Rae Ann Anderson, who, in the late 1980’s directed Trinity’s choir and founded the concert series.
Batt has more than 20 years experience accompanying and religious music, has also been the director of several prominent choirs in the tri-state area and is recorded on Arkay Records. Anderson, also a 20-year veteran in the field, also directs one of the most prestigious children’s choirs in the area–Settlement Music School’s Gleeksman-Kohn Children’s Choir of Philadelphia.
Requiem was written in 1985 by London-born John Rutter as a tribute to his own father who died in 1983.
Rutter’s father was not musical so John wrote the piece in a way that he felt everyone, those with musical background or not, could appreciate it and feels something uniquely personal when hearing it. It is considered one of the best loved and most performed choral works today.
The Trinity Community Concert Series was founded in 1989 with the understanding that the arts are an essential thread in the fabric of every community and should be shared and celebrated.
For more information, call 428–2050 or visit www.trinpres.org.
