An opportunity to join us to sing “The Armed Man : A Mass For Peace” by Karl Jenkins.
On the 29th June 2024 Horsforth Choral Society and Headingley Voices, along with musicians, will be performing this wonderful work in the beautiful St Chad’s Church in Headingley, Leeds and we have places available for new members to join us for this performance.
Rehearsals start on Monday 15th April at 7.30pm in St Margaret’s Parish Centre, Church Lane, Horsforth, LS18 5LA.
To reserve your place please email us on ContactUs@HorsforthChoralSociety.org or message our Horsforth Choral Society Facebook Page by the 15th March. The cost is just £25 for new or returning members, including music, to join us for this term.
We will rehearse each Monday, including bank holidays, and have a joint rehearsal at St Chad’s on the concert day from 1.30pm, Saturday 29th June.
From The Armed Man Wikipedia page
The piece was commissioned by the Royal Armouries Museum for the Millennium celebrations, to mark the museum’s move from London to Leeds, and it was dedicated to victims of the Kosovo crisis. Like Benjamin Britten‘s War Requiem before it, it is essentially an anti-war piece and is based on the Catholic Mass, which Jenkins combines with other sources, principally the 15th-century folk song “L’homme armé” in the first and last movements. It was written for SATB chorus with soloists (soprano and muezzin) and a symphonic orchestra. Guy Wilson, then master of the museum, selected the texts for the mass.
There are some beautiful performances of this work on YouTube, this is one such example to give you an idea of how moving and powerful a work it is. Due to the length of the video it says “unavailable” you just need to click it to watch it on YouTube itself.
We look forward to singing with you soon!