Requiring two orchestras, two choruses, and soloists, War Requiem is a large-scale work that intersperses Britten’s setting of the traditional Latin Mass for the Dead with poems by English poet and World War I soldier Wilfred Owen, who was killed one week before the Armistice was signed. Presented 8 p.m. Friday, May 3 in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre.
Harking back to a golden era in recording – when the ensembles of the Eastman School of Music made dozens of pioneering LPs for the Mercury Living Presence label – the Eastman Wind Ensemble and Eastman Virtuosi team to release an all-Stravinsky album.
No Jackets Required popular music
Midnight Ramblers a cappella group
