Vancouver Chamber Choir's TIME BENDS features a world premiere by Peter Hannan

Themes of mortality flow through a program that includes Tomás Luis de Victoria’s four-century-old Officium defunctorum (Requiem)

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Vancouver Chamber Choir’s TIME BENDS concert features two works, 400 years apart—including the world premiere of a new commission by Canadian composer Peter Hannan.

On October 14 at 7:30 pm at St. James Community Square, under the baton of Kari Turunen, the choir performs Hannan’s new Runs deep, bends time, a piece about death and mortality for choir and electronics. Hannan has said, “The first and last sections create a possible ritual around death. Three of the sections deal with the cycle of life. The other four are about disruptions of the cycle.” Amid those disruptions, the choral piece touches on the pandemic. Hannan has composed about 70 commissions, not only in choral music but across acoustic, symphonic, and electronic forms.

Sharing the program is Tomás Luis de Victoria’s Officium defunctorum (Requiem) , which he wrote in 1603 as the funeral mass for Spain’s Empress Maria. The music is measured, calm, and rich in sonority, with long, mesmerizing homophonic sections.

Both works echo each other across the centuries, attempting to answer many of the same questions.

Find more information and tickets here.

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