Yizkor Requiem combines moving liturgical traditions
There are many stunning moments of Jewish and Christian confluence to hear in Thomas Beveridge's "Yizkor Requiem," his hour-long piece for chorus and orchestra that builds bridges between two liturgical and spiritual traditions - Judaism and Christianity, as its very title suggests. Yizkor is, of course, the memorial service for the dead and the practice of annually recalling the memory of loved ones in Jewish tradit…