Dave Brubeck would have turned 100 this year. Equilibre, the Friborg International Festival of Sacred Music and the HEMU pay homage to him, through an oratorio composed for the occasion by his son, Chris Brubeck.
ÉRIC BULLIARD
It’s a story of friendship and meeting. It begins in the United States and culminates this week in Friborg, with the creation of Mary Magdalene and the garden dweller. This Saturday at Equilibre, this oratorio will pay tribute to Dave Brubeck, jazz giant, for the centenary of his birth.
Let’s resume in order. Friendship, first of all. The one between Dave Brubeck (who died in 2012) and Father Michaël S. Sherwin. A native of San Francisco, this Dominican, an ordinary professor of moral theology at the University of Friborg, wrote the libretto for the oratorio. It is inspired by…
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