Several recordings of music by composer Stephen Paulus have appeared since his death in 2014; to paraphrase an old bluegrass song, it might have been better to give him the roses while he lived! That said, the present recording was actually commissioned before Paulus' death, and it includes his own cogent notes on the main composition, a seven-movement work for chorus and orchestra called Prayers and Remembrances. The work was written for a performance on the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, ...
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Several recordings of music by composer Stephen Paulus have appeared since his death in 2014; to paraphrase an old bluegrass song, it might have been better to give him the roses while he lived! That said, the present recording was actually commissioned before Paulus' death, and it includes his own cogent notes on the main composition, a seven-movement work for chorus and orchestra called Prayers and Remembrances. The work was written for a performance on the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and it commemorates not only that event, but the personal losses suffered in its aftermath: its commissioner, Dorothy Vanek, lost friends and relatives in the attacks. The work was written to be paired with Mozart's Requiem in D minor, K. 626, and uses a similar orchestra, but with the addition of flute, oboe, horns, percussion, and quite prominently, a harp. Paulus selected sacred and secular works from a variety of traditions, including the words of Mohammed and of a Navajo prayer...
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