Truro Choral Society sings The Armed Man: Karl Jenkins The Armed man at Truro Cathedral, Truro on Saturday 3rd November 2018

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Truro Choral Society sings The Armed Man

Karl Jenkins The Armed man

Add to my Calendar 03-11-2018 19:30 03-11-2018 21:30 36 Truro Choral Society sings The Armed Man In a concert to commemorate the centenary of the end of the First World War, Truro Choral Society is performing Karl Jenkins’ powerful and haunting work The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace, joined by singers from Cornwall Youth Chamber Choir, Richard Lander School and Truro School. Truro Symphony Orchestra will be accompanying, with Martin Palmer as conductor. Written in 1999 as an anti-war work and dedicated to the victims of the Kosovo crisis, The Armed Man takes the audience from the horror of the battlefield to the possibility of peace and hope, with captivating choral and orchestral accompaniment. Based on the traditional Catholic mass, the piece also draws on a diverse selection of sacred and secular texts: a 15th-century French folk song, poetry by Kipling, Tennyson and from the aftermath of Hiroshima, the Islamic call to prayer, the Book of Revelation and the Sanskrit epic poem the Mahabharata are all included. The superb soloists will be Mubeen Azam, with Truro Cathedral choristers Katherine Gregory and Lowenna Wearne as soprano and alto, Toshi Ogita as tenor and Charlie Murray as bass. The choir’s last performance of this work was described as a “marvellous tapestry of music in which TCS performed with utmost sensitivity and great control”, and as before, pupils from Truro School will be producing colourful banners to be featured in the performance. To complement and preface The Armed Man, the choir will also perform the Introit and Kyrie from Duruflé’s Requiem. A master of harmony, Duruflé wrote the work in 1947, leading it to be perceived by many as a response to the Second World War; spellbinding and ethereal, it movingly speaks more of salvation than eternal damnation. Completing the evening’s programme is Weber’s Clarinet Concerto of 1811, described as “explosively virtuosic” by the BBC, and with passages of exquisite dialogue between the instrument and the rest of the orchestra. A wonderful night of music and contemplation not to be missed. Truro Cathedral, Truro DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Truro Cathedral
14 St Marys St
Truro
Cornwall
TR1 2AF
England

Saturday 3rd November 2018
7:30 PM

Programme

Karl Jenkins – The Armed Man (A Mass for Peace)
Maurice Duruflé – Requiem: Introit and Kyrie
Carl Maria von Weber – Clarinet Concerto no.1 in F minor, Op.73

Performers

Katherine Gregory – soprano
Lowenna Wearne – soprano
Toshi Ogita – Tenor
Charlie Murray – Bass
Martin Palmer – Conductor
Edward Holmes – clarinet

Truro Symphony Orchestra

Programme Note

In a concert to commemorate the centenary of the end of the First World War, Truro Choral Society is performing Karl Jenkins’ powerful and haunting work The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace, joined by singers from Cornwall Youth Chamber Choir, Richard Lander School and Truro School. Truro Symphony Orchestra will be accompanying, with Martin Palmer as conductor.

Written in 1999 as an anti-war work and dedicated to the victims of the Kosovo crisis, The Armed Man takes the audience from the horror of the battlefield to the possibility of peace and hope, with captivating choral and orchestral accompaniment. Based on the traditional Catholic mass, the piece also draws on a diverse selection of sacred and secular texts: a 15th-century French folk song, poetry by Kipling, Tennyson and from the aftermath of Hiroshima, the Islamic call to prayer, the Book of Revelation and the Sanskrit epic poem the Mahabharata are all included. The superb soloists will be Mubeen Azam, with Truro Cathedral choristers Katherine Gregory and Lowenna Wearne as soprano and alto, Toshi Ogita as tenor and Charlie Murray as bass.

The choir’s last performance of this work was described as a “marvellous tapestry of music in which TCS performed with utmost sensitivity and great control”, and as before, pupils from Truro School will be producing colourful banners to be featured in the performance.

To complement and preface The Armed Man, the choir will also perform the Introit and Kyrie from Duruflé’s Requiem. A master of harmony, Duruflé wrote the work in 1947, leading it to be perceived by many as a response to the Second World War; spellbinding and ethereal, it movingly speaks more of salvation than eternal damnation. Completing the evening’s programme is Weber’s Clarinet Concerto of 1811, described as “explosively virtuosic” by the BBC, and with passages of exquisite dialogue between the instrument and the rest of the orchestra.

A wonderful night of music and contemplation not to be missed.

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