Bangkok Music Society honours Queen Mother with Fauré's Requiem

This coming Saturday at 4.30pm in Christ Church on Convent Road, the Bangkok Music Society Choir will perform Requiem In D Minor by Gabriel Fauré, known for its serene and gentle character, in gratitude for the life of HM Queen Sirikit The Queen Mother, who sadly passed away last Friday.

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The work was first performed in 1888 in Paris where Fauré was an organist for many years. He wrote the music for the Catholic Mass of the Dead leaving out the parts that express fear and wrath of death, instead including only those words which see the departure of this life as a happy deliverance, an aspiration towards new happiness, rather than as a painful experience. He did this, also, by changing some of the texts to make th