On the occasion of our 25th anniversary, tonight’s concert will reprise highlights selected from past performances of some of our favorite masses. Plus, we present a rare treat: one of the 20th century’s greatest choral pieces, the Mass for Double Choir a cappella (1926), composed by Frank Martin. This is the first time Utah Chamber […]
A series of tragedies profoundly affected Finzi in his early years. By the time he was eighteen he had lost his father, three elder brothers and his much-loved music teacher, killed in action. This dreadful sequence of events, and the appalling losses of the First World War that formed the backdrop to his adolescence, gave […]
Our concert on Sunday features Gerald Finzi’s In Terra Pax. This excerpt from Classical Iconoclast tells the story of how this work came to be and how Finzi began to trust his own artistic instincts: Chosen Hill in Gloucestershire is one of those “power spots” which attract creative energy. In the early 1920’s, shy, repressed Gerald […]