"Ring out the thousand wars of oldRing in the thousand years of peace"Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1850Come together with the Greenwich Choral Society in a special choral meditation on the cost of war and the hope for peace. Inspired by the conflict and frailty of the human condition, this concert will offer compelling and provocative works by Samuel Barber, Benjamin Britten, Karl Jenkins, Vincent Persichetti, Veljo Tormis, and Ralph Vaughan Williams while featuring Franz Joseph Haydn's Mass in Time of War ("Paukenmesse"), written in 1796 as Napoleon's army was advancing on Austria.Saturday, March 5, 2011 - 4:30 PMChrist Church Greenwich254 East Putnam Ave, Greenwich, CTBuy Tickets Now
THING 124 - Of War and Peace: Greenwich Choral Society
- By Scott Elwell
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