The Providence Singers
Chorus Pro Musica
Boston Children’s Chorus
New England Philharmonic
War Requiem
Betsy Burleigh Artistic Director
Betsy Burleigh Music Director
Anthony Trecek-King Artistic Director
Michele Adams Conducting
Richard Pittman Music Director, Conducting
Sarah PelletierSoprano | Frank KelleyTenor | Sumner ThompsonBaritone
3:30 p.m. Sunday, March 4, 2012
Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul Providence, Rhode Island
Also performed 8 p.m. Saturday, March 3, 2012
Cathedral of the Holy Cross Boston, Massachusetts
“My subject is War and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. ... All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful.”
— Wilfred Owen
Benjamin Britten
(1913–1976)
War Requiem (1962)
Commissioned for the Festival to Celebrate the Consecration of St. Michael’s Cathedral, Coventry
Incorporating the Latin Missa pro Defunctis and nine poems by Wilfred Owen
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