"My subject is war and the pity of War... All a poet can do today is warn." These lines come from Wilfred Owen, a British poet and soldier who died at age 25 just one week before the armistice that ...

A beautiful symphony hall is like a sanctuary. It’s a place where members of a community gather to share a common experience. With phones off and conversations muted, there is communion between people ...

Clergy are set to join singers in performing Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem at Ely Cathedral. Canon Paul Hutchinson, rector of the St Neots Team Ministry, is among those set to perform the piece. The ...

Chamber Singers of Iowa City and the University of Iowa School of Music Choruses and Orchestra will combine to perform Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29 at Hancher ...

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Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem” is a rare beast. Most only get the chance to conduct the piece once or twice in their lives, but director of choral organizations and conducting Prof. Andrew Megill ...

The BBC has pulled an advert for a pacifist organisation that was due to appear in the programme for the Prom’s performance of Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem”. The choral work, which is a meditation ...

The National Children’s Chorus and American Youth Symphony collaborate in a tour de force performance of Benjamin Britten’s colossal and deeply moving War Requiem. This work, completed in 1962, is ...

Baritone Brian Mulligan is stepping in to replace Scotland's Iain Paterson, who has encountered visa trouble, joining a massing of vocal and orchestral forces on the Davies Hall stage to perform ...

Sixty years ago, a school choir became part of history when they were featured on Benjamin Britten's historic recording of his War Requiem. They came from Highgate School in North London, whose ...

With the Russian soprano Irina Lungu, the British tenor Allan Clayton and the German baritone Matthias Goerne, a star cast has been found that ties in with the history of the work in a special way: ...