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The Bach Festival Society of Winter Park (Instagram | Website) will perform Hector Berlioz’s Grande Messe des morts, known as the Requiem, on Sunday, October 25, at 3 p.m. at Steinmetz Hall at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Orlando.
Apparently, it will be the only presentation of the work in the United States in 2026.
Led by Artistic Director and Conductor Dr. John V. Sinclair, the performance will bring together more than 200 Bach Festival Choir voices, 90 professional Bach Festival Orchestra musicians, and four brass ensembles placed throughout the hall to create an immersive sound experience.
A $100,000 grant from the Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation helped make the performance possible. The release says the foundation is marking 50 years of partnership with the society, having given more than $1 million since 1976 to support its performances and community programs.
For a behind-the-scenes look, Sinclair joins Jeffery Moore and Kirk Gay of UCF in a podcast about the Requiem’s orchestration and acoustic design, according to the release.
The Bach Festival Society was founded in 1935 on the Rollins College campus in Winter Park. It describes its mission as inspiring the human spirit through music, choral performances, and educational programs about the legacy of J.S. Bach. Composer and conductor Sir John Rutter has called the Bach Festival Choir “one of the world’s truly great symphonic choruses,” the release says.
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