"Teeters and his classy cast and players offered the first truly satisfying performance I’ve heard... If I ever forget what a superb programmer he's been over his 39 years of directing Boston Cecilia, remind me of this concert."
-Lloyd Schwartz, The Boston Phoenix, Apr. 5, 2007. Read the review!
Cecilia joins choral ensemble Musica Sacra to create a 90-voice combined chorus paired with professional orchestra for the Brahms Requiem! 
Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
Schütz: Selig sind die Toten
Whitacre: Sleep
Mary Beekman, conductor
Emily Hindrichs, soprano
Dana Whiteside, baritone
Boston Cecilia’s 134th season begins with a collaborative performance of one of the landmark works of the choral literature. Brahms’s German Requiem (Ein deutsches Requiem) came into being as a result of some troubling upheavals in the composer’s personal life: the deaths of his great friend Robert Schumann and of his own mother among other losses.
The Boston Cecilia Chorus is pleased to join Musica Sacra in this performance, a major undertaking under any circumstances, but especially significant in this anniversary year of our sister organization, founded 50 years ago, and their excellent conductor Mary Beekman, 30 years at the helm. To open the concert Ms. Beekman presents Selig sind die Toten a milestone work by Heinrich Schütz, a composer whom Brahms admired and emulated almost above all others, and a contemporary work, Sleep, by Eric Whitacre, an admirer of both.
Sunday, November 8, 2009 at
3:00 pm
Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, 30 Gainsborough Street
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Tickets are $62, $42, $27, and $15.