| 24th Annual Good Friday Devotional Concert Friday, April 15, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. PPC resident and guest singers present Karl Jenkins’ Stabat Mater accompanied by the Friends of Music Orchestra, and the orchestra plays Joseph Jongen’s rarely heard Hymne for organ and strings. Karl Jenkins’ Stabat Mater dates from 2008. It received its premiere at Liverpool Cathedral that year and has since seen hundreds of performances around the world, including for Friends of Music’s Good Friday Devotional Concert in April, 2010. A group from PPC also joined singers from around to U.S. to perform the work at New York’s Carnegie Hall in January, 2011. For this performance, PPC staff singer Bonnie Snell Schindler provides the alto solos. Jenkins set all 20 verses of the 13th century Latin poem Stabat Mater dolorosa reflecting on the suffering of Jesus’ mother Mary during her son’s crucifixion. Jenkins incorporated texts from the Epic of Gilgamesh and the 13th century Persian poet Rumi, as well as texts in English, Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic. The first version of Joseph Jongen’s Hymne was for harmonium and piano. This arrangement for organ and string orchestra, dating from 1926, may constitute a sketch for his more famous Symphonie concertante with certain compositional elements in the Symphonie derived from the Hymne. City of Pasadena COVID protocols that are current as of the date of the concert will be observed. Program:
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