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Clif Hardin
1955 -
United States of America
| C. Hardin |
Clif Hardin (28/05/1955), an American composer. He and has lived in the Washington, DC area most of his life. He and his wife, Jan, are the proud parents of three daughters. Clif Hardin is a composer, conductor and pianist who as served as the Director of Music at River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation since 1983. Clif finds life’s greatest meanings through writing music, experiencing music with others, running, and most of all, being with his family.
| Source: | https://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/uu-composers-clif-hardin/ |
Requiem
| Period: | Modernism |
| Composed in: | 1993 |
| Musical form: | free |
| Text/libretto: | English texts |
| Duration: | ca.35' |
The Requiem was commissioned by a group of people who hoped for a choral piece on the themes of death, grief, remembrance and gratitude that would use texts other than the traditional Roman Catholic rite. This moving work depicts the time before a person’s death, the experience of death, and the human experience of loss of a loved one.
It contains
01. Timor Mortis Conturbat Me (text: William Dunbar)
02. Telos (text: John Hall Wheelock)
03. Dirge Without Music I(text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) & When I Am Dead, My Dearest (text: Christina Rosetti)
04. Holy Light (text: John Hall Wheelock)
05. Dirge Without Music II & III (text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
06. Never More (text:Hilda Doolittle)
07. The First Day's Night Had Come (text: Emily Dickinson)
08. To Everything There Is a Season (text: Ecclesiastes)
09. Time (text: Bhartrihari) & We Bereaved (text: Helen Keller)
10. Threnody (text: Ralph Waldo Emerson) & Limitless (Archibald Rutledge)
11. Wherever You Go Now (text: John Buxton)
It contains
01. Timor Mortis Conturbat Me (text: William Dunbar)
02. Telos (text: John Hall Wheelock)
03. Dirge Without Music I(text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) & When I Am Dead, My Dearest (text: Christina Rosetti)
04. Holy Light (text: John Hall Wheelock)
05. Dirge Without Music II & III (text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
06. Never More (text:Hilda Doolittle)
07. The First Day's Night Had Come (text: Emily Dickinson)
08. To Everything There Is a Season (text: Ecclesiastes)
09. Time (text: Bhartrihari) & We Bereaved (text: Helen Keller)
10. Threnody (text: Ralph Waldo Emerson) & Limitless (Archibald Rutledge)
11. Wherever You Go Now (text: John Buxton)
| Source: | https://www.rruuc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Requiem-program-2023.pdf |
Requiem: First commissioned and performed in 1993 at River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Clif Hardin’s Requiem is a profoundly moving musical portrayal of the experiences surrounding death and dying. With settings of extraordinary texts ranging from the timeless words of Ecclesiastes to 20th century poets, Requiem powerfully evokes the complex themes of anger, grief, remembrance, and gratitude that are common to our experience of losing a loved one.
| Source: | https://www.clifhardinmusic.com/recordings/ |