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LA Master Chorale: Music to Accompany a Departure

  • Grande Salle Pierre Boulez 221 Avenue Jean Jaurès Paris, IDF, 75019 France (map)

Following their widely acclaimed collaboration on Lagrime di San Pietro, acclaimed director Peter Sellars and the Los Angeles Master Chorale reunite with a deeply personal meditation on what it means to say goodbye in times of struggle. The luminous music of the Baroque composer Heinrich Schütz’s Musikalische Exequien (Music to Accompany a Departure) serves as the inspiration for this ceremony of remembrance and devotion. 24 singers gather for tender and heartfelt communal grieving in a staging that combines poignant solo and choral sections with choreography while powerfully conveying what it means to say goodbye and to have faith that the departed’s presence remains with us. 

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