The 7th Annual Chancellor's Festival of Music, 1982-83 : Psalms, University of Missouri-Columbia
Abstract
"Religious Expression Through Music", theme of this year's Chancellor's Festival of Music, provides us with a unique opportunity to understand more fully the influence which religious cultures of the East and West have had on the development of our musical heritage. Festival concerts will focus on musical settings of the psalms by composers from the Renaissance Era to the 20th-century. Some of the best-know settings of verses from the psalms may be found in oratorios and other large-scale choral works such as Handel's Messiah, Brahms' German Requiem, and King David by Honegger, which will be featured in this year's festival. In addition to these gala concerts, special performances of other psalm compositions, and music for pipe organ, have been planned for Columbia's Missouri United Methodist Church; Christopher Wren's historical London Church of Saint Mary Aldermanbury which is part of the Winston CHurchill Memorial at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri; and the dramatic contemporary Fireston-Baars Chapel at the Stephens College which was designed by Eliel and Eero Saarinen. Together with these musical event, lectures by distinguished scholars sponsored by UMC's newly created Department of Religious Studies, and special exhibits of Psalters, antique Bibles, and other materials related to the festival them, have been planned.