Benjamin Britten: War Requiem
Saturday, March 3rd, 8:00 pm
Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston
This masterpiece for orchestra, choruses, and soloists is an eloquent meditation on the sacrifices of war and the universal longing for peace, set to music of searing power and transcendent beauty.
Collaborating in the performance are Chorus pro Musica, the Providence Singers, and the Boston Children’s Chorus, with soloists Sarah Pelletier, Frank Kelley, and Sumner Thompson. Cathedral of the Holy Cross provides a magnificent space for this magnificent music.
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Welcome to our 35th Anniversary Season!
New England Philharmonic is proud to be celebrating 35 years of playing the best music of the past and the present. We continue to thrive on the exhilarating moments when composer, performer, and audience share the same time and space. The major highlight of the 2011-2012 season is a special performance on March 3, 2012, of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem in collaboration with Chorus pro Musica, the Providence Singers, and the Boston Children’s Chorus and featuring Sarah Pelletier, Frank Kelley, and Sumner Thompson as soloists. This concert will be held at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, a magnificent space for this magnificent music. During this anniversary season we will feature works of past and present Composers in Residence, including the Boston premiere of Michael Gandolfi’s Of Angels and Neurones on our October concert, Andy Vores’ An Other I, a violin concerto commissioned by the NEP in 2005, and David Rakowski’s Winged Contraption, both in May. Our season also includes a performance of the winner of our annual Call for Scores competition; a concerto by the winner of our Young Artists Competition, and four regional or world premieres, including Bernard Hoffer’s Suite from Thundercats on our December Family Concert. We also are pleased to mark our continued association with Simmons College as Orchestra in Residence by a performance of two works with the Simmons College Concert Choir in May. Please join us this season for the best of innovation and tradition in concert.
