Vierne: Messe Solennelle Whitacre: The Sacred Veil - Guelph

Sat Nov 08 2025 at 04:00 pm to 05:30 pm UTC-05:00

161 Norfolk St, Guelph, ON N1H 4J7, Canada | Guelph

The Edison Singers
Publisher/HostThe Edison Singers
Vierne: Messe Solennelle Whitacre: The Sacred Veil - Guelph
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Regular $45
Senior $40
Student $20
Child $10
Louis Victor Jules Vierne (1870 –1937) was the organist of Notre-Dame de Paris from 1900 until his death. As a composer, much of his output was organ music, including six symphonies and four suites, and the Messe Solennelle for choir and organ, which we will be performing in three venues. Along with Erik Whitacre’s The Sacred Veil. This work is written for choir, cello and piano and celebrates the “precarious beauty of life, offering the welcome consolation of art and a momentary stay against our collective fate.”
Grammy Award-winning composer Eric Whitacre’s The Sacred Veil is a deeply personal meditation on love, loss, and healing. The Sacred Veil is a 12-movement work and the most recent collaboration between composer Eric Whitacre and poet/lyricist Charles Anthony Silvestri. It tells the true story of Silvestri’s wife, Julie, who passed away from ovarian cancer at 36. This intimate and compelling score weaves a universal narrative of courtship, love, loss, and the search for solace. Through its luminous harmonies and intimate text, the piece explores the profound connection between love and grief. “Heartbreaking but also bracing” (LA Times). Though inspired by this deeply personal story, The Sacred Veil transcends names and particulars, inviting all of us into a shared human journey of remembrance and hope.
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