Portland Choir & Orchestra: Brahms Requiem
$24.50-$39.50
- Stacey Murdock, baritone
- Madison Barton-Holloway, soprano
Don't miss Portland Choir & Orchestra's special presentation of Brahms Requiem, 2pm and 7pm at the Patricia Reser Center for the Arts in Beaverton.
The Brahms Requiem, as it is commonly known, dominates the requiem category and is Johannes Brahms' most celebrated work. It is a large-scale masterpiece for chorus, orchestra, and soloists in seven movements and will feature guest artists Stacey Murdock as baritone and Madison Barton-Holloway as soprano. Instead of the traditional Latin text recited at funerals and used by composers for centuries, Brahms chose words that offer consolation for the living. He set psalms and other passages from the Bible leaving out all forms of dogma. It became an enormous success and changed his life.
Performance dedicated in loving memory of Jan Jacobsen.
About Stacey Murdock, baritone
Stacey Murdock has performed extensively throughout the Northwest in opera, oratorio, and musical theater. Stacey's musical credits include: Poo-Bah in The Mikado, Fredrik Egerman in A little Night Music, the title role in Man of La Mancha, Curly in Oklahoma, and The Chairman in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. His theater credits include Benedick in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, and The Ghost of Christmas Present in Dickens' A Christmas Carol. He performs with Portland Opera, most recently as Antonio in Le nozze di Figaro, and has also been a member of the Portland Opera to Go outreach program for 9 seasons.
Stacey has appeared frequently with the Astoria Music Festival and Portland Summerfest. He is also a successful concert artist, and has sung with the Sunnyside Symphony Orchestra as the Baritone Soloist in Haydn's Creation, and with the St. James Lutheran Bach Vespers. Stacey has been featured twice by the Beaverton Symphony, first as Schaunard in Puccini's La Bohème, and then as Figaro in Rossini's The Barber of Seville.