Wayland Baptist University choir members, alumni and friends joined forces Saturday, June 7, to present Gabriel Faure’s ...

Nowhere is this better demonstrated than in his Cantique de Jean Racine. Composed in 1865, when Fauré was just twenty, it’s very much a precursor to the Requiem, with similarly lush, intense choral ...

In the Cantique de Jean Racine, we once again encounter Fauré’s affection for his early works. There is an amusing postscript in a letter that he sent to the house of Hamelle, his publisher ...

In 1865, the year Fauré left the school, he composed his ravishing choral miniature, Cantique De Jean Racine, which has risen over the last decade from almost total obscurity to become a great ...

The main item in the programme will be the very popular Requiem by Faure, but there will be 8 other choral items including ...

$10 admission for singers (or annual membership). Free for students and non-singing guests. Choral singers welcome. No auditions. Vocal scores provided. Members of the community gathered ...

Bakewell Parish Church is the venue for the concert on March 29 at which the society will be joined by young soloists. Soprano Bethan Pollard and baritone James Caroe will sing during the Requiem ...

Jean Racine (Playwright) was a French poet and playwright born in 1639. From age nine he was reared in a Jansenist convent and chose drama as a career in defiance of his upbringing. His fame rests ...