Howells: Requiem (Mar 14, 2026, Washington, DC)

Music of love and loss, also featuring works by Britten, Barber, Tin, and others

Although it was written in 1932, Herbert Howells’s Requiem was not performed until 1980. It has since been recognized as one of the finest and most moving pieces of western choral writing. Join us as we present this profound meditation on grief and hope, paired with selections like Caroline Shaw’s and the swallow, Benjamin Britten’s “Concord” (from Gloriana), two excerpts from Christopher Tin’s The Lost Birds, and other works in this extraordinary concert on themes of love and loss.

Program

Hill We Bloomed in Spring
Barber 1. Mary Hynes (from Reincarnations)
Wagner Hope
Tin 9. All That Could Never Be Said (from The Lost Birds)
Tin 2. The Saddest Noise (from The Lost Birds)
Shaw and the swallow (psalm 84)
Britten 2. Concord (from Choral Dances from Gloriana)
Murrill 1. O mistress mine (from Two Songs from Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”)
Plakidis In Memoriam

Billings Africa (arr. Rimkus)
Howells Requiem
1. Salvator mundi
2. Psalm 23
3. Requiem aeternam I
4. Psalm 121
5. Requiem aeternam II
6. I heard a voice from heaven