Britten’s “Voices for Today” receives rare performance

The rarely heard ‘mini-cantata’, “Voices for Today” (op. 75), will be given its St. Louis premiere on May 26. This 1964 commission from the United Nations provides the climax to both the concert and our “Choral Atlas” season in general. It will be complemented by Sydney Guillaume’s “Alleluia Amen,” which – like the Britten – calls for double choir + a youth chorus. It was previously commissioned by Sunday afternoon’s performers, the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus. The concert, presented in the Haerrter Hall Theater at John Burroughs School, also includes humanist works by Beethoven, John David and Vaughan Williams, together with Giovanni Gabrieli’s motet for four separate choirs, “Omnes Gentes.” Tickets and more information may be obtained from www.chamberchorus.org

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United States