A Sacred Opening

Sat 28/3

19.30hrs                             

A SACRED OPENING

SILESIAN CHAMBER CHOIR AD LIBITUM

GAULITANUS CHOIR

GAULITANUS STRING ENSEMBLE

COLIN ATTARD│IZABELLA ZIELECKA-PANEK Conductors – Malta/Poland

Basilica of Our Lady of Visitation, Għarb

The Opening Concert at Gaulitana presents a double choral bill with the Gaulitanus Choir & String Ensemble alongside the Silesian Chamber Choir Ad Libitum.

The Gozitan choir ushers patrons into Holy Week with British-American excerpts as the Polish ensemble interprets Faure’s powerful Requiem, his “pursuit of happiness in the hereafter”. The two concluding massed choir works, include the premiere a hymn by Pierre Louis Attard composed to celebrate the 800^th death anniversary of Francis of Assisi.