Brahms' German Requiem

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Nov. 20-22, 2026 Helzberg Hall Matthias Pintscher, music director and conductor Sophia Burgos, soprano Andrew Foster-Williams, bass-baritone Kansas City Symphony Chorus OLGA NEUWIRTH Tombeau II: Hommage à Pierre Boulez (Tomb II: Homage to Pierre Boulez) ARNOLD SCHOENBERG A Survivor from Warsaw JOHANNES BRAHMS A German Requiem Experience Johannes Brahms’ magnum opus with Music Director Matthias Pintscher and the Kansas City Symphony Chorus. The great German composer was deeply moved by the death of his mother and composed what he almost called “A Human Requiem.” Taking German texts from the Luther Bible instead of the Latin text of the Requiem Mass, he created a humanist work focused not on the soul of the departed but on the living. The program also includes Arnold Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw , a memorial to victims of the Holocaust that defies evil with a powerful expression of faith.