Baltimore Choral Arts Presents Human Requiem

05 October 2023

On November 5, 2023, Baltimore Choral Arts Society will present Human Requiem, a one-of-a-kind audio-visual concert experience. Beginning at 3pm in the Shriver Hall Auditorium at Johns Hopkins University, Music Director Anthony Blake Clark will lead the chorus in a performance of the Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem in a way audiences have never heard it before: combined with Joel Thompson’s heart wrenching and poignant 2015 composition, Seven Last Words of the Unarmed, a musical setting of the last words of seven Black men who died at the hands of police or other authority figures.

Thompson, who will be in attendance at this performance, has called Seven Last Words his “most important composition today” (Sevenlastwords.org/about). The seven movements of the piece will be expertly woven throughout the Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem. This reimagining provides new context for both pieces of music.

Alternating between movements of the Thompson and the Brahms is not the only way that Maestro Clark has chosen to tell this story: the auditorium will be transformed during the concert, thanks to the work of award-winning and innovative projection designer Camilla Tassi, whose work has been seen in productions at Carnegie Hall and Walt Disney Concert Hall, and alongside artists such as Conspirare and Apollo’s Fire.

This performance will feature local favorite, soprano soloist Janice Chandler-Eteme along with accomplished bass-baritone Joseph Parrish. The singers will be accompanied by Benjamin Loeb and Leo Wanenchak performing a four hands piano arrangement of the score.

Tickets start at $25 and be purchased by visiting BaltimoreChoralArts.org or by calling our box office at 410-523-7070 ex. 301.

Baltimore Choral Arts, under the direction of Music Director Anthony Blake Clark, is one of Maryland’s premier professional cultural institutions. The Symphonic Chorus, Chorus, and Chamber Singers perform throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, as well as in Washington, DC, New York, and Europe.

Sunday, November 7, 2023 at 3:00 PM

Shriver Hall Auditorium at the Johns Hopkins University
3101 Wyman Park Drive, Baltimore MD 21218

Featuring:
Baltimore Choral Arts Society
Anthony Blake Clark, Music Director and Conductor
Benjamin Loeb and Leo Wanenchak, piano
Janice Chandler-Eteme, soprano
Joseph Parrish, bass-baritone

Program:
Ein Deutsches Requiem, Johannes Brahms
Seven Last Words of the Unarmed, Joel Thompson

Baltimore Choral Arts graciously acknowledges our sponsor for this concert, the Thomas B. & Elizabeth M. Sheridan Foundation

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*Notice: Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Inc. has leased or rented facilities from the Johns Hopkins University. However, Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Inc. and any programs operated by Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Inc. are not related to or affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University in any way. Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Inc. is an entirely separate legal entity with no connection to the Johns Hopkins University aside from the temporary use of facilities for the specified program.

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