Requiem XIX: the requiem for peace by Laurent Couson
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Requiem XIX, the requiem for peace by Laurent Couson.
© Requiem XIX, Saint-Médard Church, Paris 5th
By: Geneviève Delrue
51 mins
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World Religions - Sunday June 27, 2021 - 11:10 a.m. - 12 p.m. (Paris time)
Compose a Requiem in memory of those swept away by the Covid, but also celebrate the return to life and call for harmony between men:
Requiem XIX.
(19 in reference to 2019, the start of the health crisis) is sung and performed for the first time this weekend in
the Church of Saint-Médard,
in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. Pianist, composer, conductor, author of many film scores,
Laurent Couson
wrote
Requiem XIX
in spring 2020, in full confinement. Inhabited by the texts of the Bible, it was inspired by the myth of the Tower of Babel common to the three monotheistic religions, hence the songs in Hebrew, Latin and Arabic. At a time when humanity finds itself, an emblematic work.
Reportage
behind the scenes of a rehearsal.
“Faith and Religion”, by Cardinal Joseph de Kesel.
© Salvator Publishing
Major interview with Cardinal Joseph De Kesel, Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels
Rethinking the mission and the place of the Church in a Western world which is no longer Christian: it is from this lucid observation that
Cardinal Joseph De Kesel
in his book
“
Faith and religion in a
modern society
” (Salvator)
offers a reflection on the future of Christianity. For the Archbishop of Malines-Brussels, elevated to the rank of cardinal in 2016 by Pope Francis, to whom he is close, seeking to re-Christianize society is a lure, we must read the signs of the times and pursue the intuitions of the Second Vatican Council by facilitating a culture of meeting those who want to humanize modern society.
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