Brian Finley

Holy, Holy, Holy

Whether it evokes the first word ('rest') of the solemn Catholic mass sung annually on All Soul's Day or whether it is glorious music written to commemorate particular people, a Requiem deals with passage, or transformation. It reminds us that endings are a necessary part of new beginnings.By being a spiritual and musical celebration of the past 1,000 years, Requiem for a Millennium attempts to face the future with assurance. Through faith, fear is gently transformed into freedom. And though musically it ends as it begins, the journey leaves the music in a new, peacefully holy light.Several musical styles are found in the Requiem for a Millennium from Gregorian Chant to Renaissance, Baroque and Classical forms, romantic outpourings of grief, and neo-medieval quartal and atonal harmonies of our own times.