At 7:30pm on Thursday, October 10, the South Carolina American Choral Directors Association (SC ACDA) will hold a Fauré Requiem Sing-A-Long in our Sanctuary. Dr. Hugh Floyd will serve as Guest Conductor for the gathered musicians. Those participating include the Columbia Choral Society with Artistic Director Dr. Elizabeth Mears, the First Baptist Greenville Sanctuary Choir with Director Fred DeFoor, and the Westminster Presbyterian Sanctuary Choir with Director Marlon Hurst, accompanied by Organist Dr. Charles Tompkins and Chamber Orchestra. This preliminary concert of the SC ACDA fall conference is free and open to the public.
Composer Gabriel-Urbain Fauré’s refined and gentle music influenced the course of modern French music. Requiem is one of best known of his major works. Fauré wrote of this work, “Everything I managed to entertain by way of religious illusion I put into my Requiem, which moreover is dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest.” This year is the 100th anniversary of the French composer’s death on November 4, 1924. Be present in our Sanctuary on October 10 to experience this beloved masterpiece of choral literature.