The formidable talents of The Hartt School Choruses (Edward Bolkovac, director), Hartt Symphony Orchestra (Christopher Zimmerman, director), Connecticut Children’s Chorus (Stuart Younse, Director), and Hartford Chorale (Richard Coffey, director), combine to perform Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, conducted by Christopher Zimmerman.
Soloists - Jonita Lattimore, soprano, William Hite tenor, and David Murray, baritone - join the more than 300 vocalists and instrumentalists for this massive work. Marked by the juxtaposition of Wilfred Owen’s poetry and the text of the Latin Mass, the Requiem presents in strong and poignant terms the brutality and, for Britten, futility of war.
Maestro Zimmerman says of the piece, “The sheer scale of the musical forces and the diversity of the orchestral palette—from the large-scale gestures of the Dies Irae through the anglo-liturgical atmosphere of the children’s choir to the eerily intimate sparseness of the final text of Wilfred Owen's poem "Strange Meeting"—make this piece an event.” He goes on to say, “This piece is about us and our lack of answers to the perennial problem of war and peace. At the front of the score Britten quotes Owen in a phrase, the last line of which is “all a poet can do is warn”. With his War Requiem, Britten as a composer is surely asking that the least we can do is listen.”
Reservations: $25 advanced reservation, preferred reserved seating; $50 advanced reservation, premium reserved seating; $20 suggested donation at the door, general seating. Limited seating available; advanced reservations strongly encouraged.
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