‘The Tender Parting’ featuring the Fauré Requiem benefits African Mission

Caritas Chamber Chorale, directed by Barbara Sanderman, with Simply Strings and organist, Wayne Dietterick, will present three concerts of sacred music, entitled “The Tender Parting,” for the benefit of Adorno Fathers’ Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa.

Through the music, “The Tender Parting” embraces life’s journey, recalls the loss of loved ones while acknowledging grief, and offers prayers for the dead. Listeners will be invited to write their deceased loved ones’ names in Caritas’s Book of the Dead. The Fauré Requiem will be dedicated to these loved ones, who will also be remembered at Mass by the Adorno Fathers.

The program opens with a cappella music, including Kevin Ziegfried’s arrangement of the Shaker hymn Come to Zion, and Rheinberger’s exquisite motet for six voices, Abendlied. O Pulse of My Heart by Karen Marrolli and Jake Runestad’s Let My Love Be Heard touch on the complicated emotions of both grief and hope.

Simply Strings, with concert master Maria Ramsay, and organist Wayne Dietterick join the Chorale for the Fauré Requiem. Caritas Chamber Chorale, comprised of about 20 singers and with just a few instruments, will provide an immediate and intimate rendering of the Requiem, which is more closely aligned with the original 19th century performance by Fauré himself than the often-heard orchestral version with large chorus.

The concert will be presented on:

Friday, Nov. 17, at 7:30 p.m. at
St. Magdalen de Pazzi Church,
105 Mine St., Flemington

Saturday, Nov. 18, at 8 p.m. at
Our Lady of Lourdes Church,
390 County Rd. 523, Whitehouse Station

Sunday, Nov. 19, at 3 p.m. at
Our Lady of Peace Church,
111 South St., New Providence

The concerts are free and open to the public. The entirety of a freewill offering will benefit the Pierluigi Fabbiani Nursery School, the Gianni Diurni Primary School and the Foyer de l’Enfance Paolo Di Nardo Orphanage, run by the Adorno Fathers’ St. Francis Caracciolo Mission in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa.

For more information, please visit www.caritaschamberchorale.org or email [email protected].