Trent Neideree won 2nd place in the Junior Engineering Division at Salt Lake Valley Science and Engineering Fair. The 6th Grade girls won the Senior Sportsmanship Award at the Holy Crusaders Basketball Tournament. MIchael Purk and Davinci Eccles were on the team that won championship for 5th and 6th grade team Holy Crusaders Basketball Tournament.
This concert was performed on Sunday 18 March 2012 at 8:00 p.m.
Antonín Dvořák Stabat Mater, Op. 58
Stabat Mater is a thirteenth-century text attributed to Jacopone da Todi. Its title is an abbreviation of the first line, Stabat mater dolorosa: “The sorrowful mother was standing beneath the Cross.” The hymn, one of the most powerful and moving of the medieval sequences, meditates on the suffering of Mary, the mother of Christ, during his crucifixion and death. Dvořák’s setting of this text is his first composition based on a religious theme, and came in reaction to the death of his daughter Josefa. Dvořák completed the work in its final version in 1877, following the tragic loss of two more children. Dvořák would go on to have other children, but the tragic loss of his first three children reveals the source of the emotional depth and intensity of this composition. First performed in Prague in 1880, the Stabat Mater was subsequently performed to great acclaim in England and the United States.
