april 15, 2022

bella concert hall 

7:30pm 

With special guest:

Jeff Reilly, bass clarinet

Luminous Voices continues a Good Friday tradition. Listeners will be transported by a new and considerably more ornamented edition of Allegri’s Miserere Mei. This stunning work is followed by Peter-Anthony Togni’s Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae (Lamentations of Jeremiah) with special guest Jeff Reilly on bass clarinet. Bridging sacred choral music with expressive improvisational gestures, Lamentatio is a 55-minute setting of The Old Testament prophet’s lamentations. Togni’s idea originated in a request from bass clarinet player Jeff Reilly for a concerto in which dramatic narrative events would be enacted through improvisation. The piece conveys the story of Jeremiah’s prophecies of the impending destruction of Jerusalem at the hands of the Babylonians, with the choir providing the crowd scenes and the bass clarinet as the voice of Jeremiah.