On Saturday, April 27 at 7:30 pm at Bailey Hall, Cornell’s Chorus and Glee Club will collaborate with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra and soloists Tamara Acosta, soprano, and Sidney Outlaw, baritone, to present Brahms’ A German Requiem. Conducted by Cornelia Laemmli Orth, the work is celebrating its 150th anniversary, just as the Cornell Glee Club, under the direction of Robert Isaacs, commemorates its own sesquicentennial. The largest of Brahms’ works, the Requiem is a mainstay of the choral-orchestral repertoire amd features texts that avoid specific references, instead creating universally applicable ideas of humanity.
In addition to the choral sections, Acosta and Outlaw are featured; Acosta is on faculty at Ithaca College and has appeared with the Santa Fe, Sarasota, and Nashville Operas, among others, and Outlaw’s appearances include performances with the English National Opera, Metropolitan Opera, the Spoleto Festival, and more.
Orth spoke with WSKG Radio about the collaboration, and the interview can be heard online. Chorus and Glee Club members are also sharing their thoughts about performing this major work; videos can be seen on their respective Facebook pages: Glee Club, Chorus. Additional coverage from the Ithaca Times is also available.
A pre-concert talk with Orth will begin onstage at 6:45 pm. Tickets are $28 for adults, and $10 for students and are available at Baileytickets.com
