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Show C-2 The Park Record Wed/Thurs/Fri, February 5-7, 2020 Choir prepares a ‘Requiem’ for Park City and New York COURTESY OF DEBRA COOK More than 70 singers and musicians from Park City, Florida and California will perform John Rutter’s “Requiem” on Sunday, at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. The group will then head to New York to perform Feb. 16 at Carnegie Hall. First concert will be Saturday at St. Luke’s Church SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record Utah Conservatory Choral Society, headed by Debra Cook, the co-founder of the Utah Conservatory, is heading to Carnegie Hall on Feb. 16 to perform Sir John Rutter’s “Requiem” with Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY). Before the society, which is part of the Park City Arts & Music Conservatory, heads to the Big Apple, it will perform the piece for Park City on Saturday, Feb. 8, at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. The piece was performed last year in Park City by the Park City Interfaith Council Choir, she said. “That was sponsored by the Interfaith Council, who went out and raised money and had the help of a lot of churches that threw in their support,” Cook said. Cook sent a clip of the performance to DCINY, a production company that stages performances at Carnegie Hall and other venues back East. John Rutter’s “Requiem” performed by the Utah Conservatory Choral Society When: 7 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 8 Where: St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 4595 N. Silver Spring Drive Cost: $15 at the door Phone: 435-649-6292 “They had been noticing what we had been doing with choirs, so they had asked me about the possibility of me bringing a group to New York,” Cook said. “When they saw the clip, they issued a formal invitation to perform at Carnegie Hall.” Saturday’s performance will be conducted by DCINY artistic director Jonathan Griffiths, who conducted the Interfaith Choir last year, Cook said. The concert will be used by the Christian Family Foundation and St. Luke’s Episcopal Church as part of their ministry, Cook said. “In addition, we’ll set up a whiteboard where those who attend the concert will be able to write the names of people they want to memorialize that night,” she said. Rutter’s “Requiem,” which premiered in 1985, is a sev- PHOTO BY JILL ORSCHEL Utah Conservatory co-founder Debra Cook has worked to recruit singers to perform John Rutter’s “Requiem” in Park City and in New York. en-movement work that was inspired by the Catholic Church’s Requiem Mass, which offers peace, comfort and eternal rest to the dead, according to Cook. “The Rutter piece is an interesting change from the Catholic Church’s traditional Mass that is sung in Latin,” she said. “This piece is performed in both English and Latin.” Please see Choir, C-5 |