Last night we attended a 150-musician, four-county, four-choir, seven-movement performance at EOU of Johannes Brahms’ German Requiem (Ein deutsches Requiem). Conductor was Zeke Fetrow, music director of the Grande Ronde Symphony. Soloists were Peter Wordelman, EOU Choral Director, and Rebecca Replogle, Treasure Valley CC Director of Choirs. (Of course, Kim’s hiking buddy, Denise — also mother of Marina — was there in her position as first viola.)
If you’re not familiar with the Brahms’ Requiem, you can get a sense of it from this full-length performance several years ago at UC Davis: