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Article: FUNEREAL FOR THE FUN OF IT.(Pasatiempo)
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- The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
- Article date:
- October 30, 2009
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Byline: CRAIG SMITH
If Canticum Novum's concerts this weekend seem to have a somewhat funereal cast, it's not your imagination. Kenneth Knight,
the chamber orchestra and chorus's music director, has chosen the repertoire to suit a theme: the observance of the feasts of All Saints'
Day and All Souls' Day, which fall on Sunday, Nov. 1, and Monday,
Nov. 2, in the Christian calendar - the days immediately following
Allhallows' Eve.
The concert in St. Francis Auditorium of the New Mexico Museum of Art begins with English composer Maurice Greene's stately anthem "Lord, Let Me Know Mine End," followed by Bach's cantata ...