Concert Excerpt from PASSION with Tropes (reconstructed 2010)
Chorus with Soloists, Sinfonietta, Actors, and Children’s Choir – 35 min.
See also PASSION with Tropes [Immersive Theatre version] and PASSION with Tropes (1983)
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Concert Excerpt
The 30-minute “Concert Excerpt” presented in this video with audio from IU’s Contemporary Vocal Ensemble and New Music Ensemble (and a children’s choir from St. Charles School directed by Sandra Freund) is the first hearing of a new, reduced orchestration and tightened dramatic form for the work, focusing on its closing trajectory. Christ’s final cry of “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani” (My God, why have you forsaken me?) is a recurring image throughout, surrounded by multifaceted meditations, sacred and profane, on life, death, and love.