Enrichment Session: Two Texts of the Brahms Requiem

This session will delve into where Brahms found his texts, what they meant to him, and how he put them together. We’ll look at how the texts were paired as well as Brahms own religious philosophy which influenced the Requiem. Shaw’s English Adaptation of the Requiem was a direct result of his conducting the Brahms broadcast with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in August 1997. We’ll look at that broadcast in the final session of the symposium.