Takemitsu + Brahms’s Requiem
Jones Hall for the Performing Arts 615 Louisiana St., Houston, TX, United StatesMusic Director Juraj Valcuha leads Brahms’s extraordinary A German Requiem. Written during a time of personal grief for Brahms, the Requiem offers music of time-altering beauty as a balm of comfort, peace, and uplifting hope to those experiencing grief and loss. The concerts open with Toru Takemitsu’s emotionally powerful Requiem for strings.