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Rosemary Ponnekanti for South Sound Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n Two years after our world plunged into a pandemic, times are still dark. Violence, sickness, suffering, death. The same could be said for late 1791, when Mozart was writing his Requiem.<\/p>\n Yet in deep darkness, light shines brighter \u2014 and so the pairing by Symphony Tacoma of that iconic, soul-baring Requiem with a joyful composition by Tacoma children made for a powerful season ending June 4. The evening \u2014 and the light \u2014 began\u00a0with \u201cEternal Light,\u201d a piece in several parts commissioned by the orchestra from Tacoma\u2019s youth. From a virtual video stitched together during the early pandemic from submissions of instrumental melodies, voices and artwork, \u201cEternal Light\u201d transformed this year into something deeper and more complex.<\/p>\n The youth who took part could finally come together in person to share, experience art like the immersive Van Gogh exhibit, and learn from director Sarah Ioannides, whose brainchild and production this is. The result, performed live after a screening of the 2021 video, got a standing ovation from the sold-out house.<\/p>\n The contrast with the Requiem couldn\u2019t have been stronger. From the inexorable opening funeral trudge through the solid fugue of the Kyrie, the orchestra and Symphony Tacoma Voices set a tone of full, dark sound, flowing and churning like a river through the roundness of University Place Presbyterian Church.<\/p>\n Symphony Tacoma Voices sang magnificently. Following Ioannides\u2019 lead, they offered clear diction and dramatic shading, with basses moving fiercely through their sixteenth notes and sopranos angelic in the stratosphere. 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