SUNDAY, 9/11, FIFTEENTH ANNIVERSARY
OPUS ONE BERKS CHAMBER CHOIR PRESENTS
MOZART'S REQUIEM
HOSTED BY THE JESUIT CENTER IN THE MAIN CHAPEL
Susan Pena, Reading Eagle Correspondent wrote the Concert Review with the heading: "Opus One's Requiem overwhelms with sound and emotion....Mozart's Requiem was uniquely suited to this day. (Choir members) under the direction of Christopher Hoster, gave an extraordinary performance, heartfelt and beautifully sung." After the last notes of "quia pius es", silence filled the chapel while some shed tears.
Among the guests were the parents of Johanna Sigmund who died in the Twin Towers. John and Ruth Sigmund and Johanna's uncle indicated afterward that annually this day is "hard". Eased it was by a morning Mass honoring the victims of 9/11 and celebrated in their home church with friends and family. Eased it was, too, by music which Ruth termed a powerful piece "of hope and unity."
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