Mezzo-soprano, TTBB Chorus, Keyboard
Duration: 7'
Text: Poetry by Quentin Crisp
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Composed: 1995
Published by: AdlerOaks Music Library

"Employing an eclectic, predominantly lyrical musical language, Adler writes for both chours and orchestra with uncommon imagination." —Derrick Henry, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

About Memento mori: The texts include traditonal Latin, Hebrew, and English texts, personal prose and poetry by and about people with AIDS, as well as the poetry of Quentin Crisp. The nine momvements of this Requiem suggest a parallel format to the Requiem Mass. —JA

Recorded by AmorArtis Chorale and Orchestra, Johannes Somary conductor, featuring Victoria Livengood, Jane Dutton, Maire O'Brien, Neil Farrell, and Steve Huffnes (Albany Records, Troy 463).