Fri 11/22 @ 7:30PM
British composer Benjamin Britten was one of the towering talents of the 20th century, composing an awe-inspiring variety of pieces including operas, orchestral works, song cycles that often set great poetry to music, and chamber pieces.
Britten would have been 100 this year. (He died in 1976 at the age of 63). Music and Art at Trinity Cathedral is celebrating his work and his life with a gala concert at the cathedral.
The Trinity Cathedral Choir, the Trinity Chamber Singers, and the Trinity Chamber Orchestra, conducted by the cathedral’s director of music and worship Todd Wilson, will perform four of his great vocal works: Hymn to Saint Cecilia, Canticle II Abraham and Isaac, Rejoice in the Lamb, and Cantata 11 Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen.
The concert is free and open to the public; a freewill offering will be taken.
There’s also a pre-concert lecture at 6:30pm, by Cathedral Choir/Chamber Singers member Cliff Hill, which will cover his life and work in general, and the pieces on the program more specifically.
trinitycleveland.org/music-and-art/2013/11/06/happy-100th-birthday-benjamin-britten/
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