"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

Listening to Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem” on the weekend of March 3-4 reconnected me with the war poetry of Wilfred Owen. I had read many of his poems at Augustana College, but to hear some of ...

The QCA was blessed to have Benjamin Britten's War Requiem performed last weekend. The two performances by a greatly expanded Q-C orchestra was stunning. Words fail me in trying to describe it.

The first thing you realize when working with Benjamin Britten is that he is a thorough professional, though he lives in an era which has tended, in all branches of the arts, to glorify the amateur.