Sunday evening, Sept. 23, at 7 p.m. will be the first rehearsal for the fall Trinity Masterworks Choir program. The work selected for this fall program is the ‘Requiem’ written by Norwegian composer, Kim Andre Arnesen. This work was written in 2014 and had its New York Premier in Carnegie Hall in 2017. For those of you who attended this year’s spring concert, you have already heard his work in the short piece “Even When He is Silent’, which was based on a writing found on a wall of a concentration camp .

‘Arnensen’s Requiem is not dedicated to any particular person or group, but written with the aim of providing solace to people who are in pain and grieving or to assist in a moment of remembrance and honoring. “This work includes parts of the original Requiem Mass text, a poem by Emily Dickenson, ‘Not in Vain’ and also a remembrance poem of unknown origin written in the 20th century.” The work will have instrumental accompaniment.

Trinity Masterworks Choir was formed in 2017 by Director Phillip McMullen with the purpose of creating a community singing group that welcomes all singers with some musical experience to perform larger pieces of work several times a year.

The choir is composed of some Trinity church choir singers, past and present student singers from Fredonia State College, middle/high school students from local schools and community members.

If you have sung in choirs in the past and wish to renew that experience, join us for the first rehearsal on Sunday, Sept. 23. The rehearsals are held on Sunday evenings from 7 to 9 p.m., and on alternate Thursdays in the nave of Trinity Episcopal Church, 11 Day St., Fredonia. Enter through the front doors of the church. The performance date is Friday, Nov. 16. We look forward to welcoming more community members into the Trinity Masterworks Choir program.