Chapman University Singers Collaborate in Britten’s War Requiem
October 21, 2013
Chapman University Singers
Under the direction of Stephen Coker, the University Singers will join conductor Maestro James Conlon, internationally renowned soloists, and massed southern California university choirs and orchestras in two performances of Britten’s monumental masterpiece,
War Requiem
. One of music’s greatest anti-war statements, Britten’s masterpiece poignantly combines the moving WWI poetry of Wilfred Owen with the Catholic Mass for the Dead. In observance of the 2013 centenary of Benjamin Britten, the University Singers are pleased to become a part of LA Opera’s year-long festival “Britten 100/LA: A Celebration.”
The first performance, presented by the Philharmonic Society of Orange County, is November 24 at 8pm, in the
Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall
in Costa Mesa. There will be a pre-concert lecture by Dr. William Hall, founding dean of the Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music, at 7pm. The performance will include the Colburn Orchestra, members of USC Thornton Symphony, the Los Angeles Children’s Choir, the USC Chamber Singers, the Cal State Fullerton Choir, the California State University Long Beach Choir, and the New Zealand Youth Choir.
On November 25 at 8pm at
Walt Disney Concert Hall
in Los Angeles, the program will again be presented, this time by the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s
Sounds About Town.
Discount tickets
for this performance are available!