Vancouver Chamber Choir - Requiem for Peace

This is a promotional video for the Vancouver Chamber Choir's performance of:

REQUIEM FOR PEACE Reflections of Hiroshima
8 pm Saturday, November 19, 2011
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (UBC), Vancouver, BC Canada

Vancouver Chamber Choir
Vancouver Chamber Ensemble
Jon Washburn, conductor

Jon Washburn leads the Choir, soloists and ensemble in the new chamber version of Vancouver composer Larry Nickel's inspiring "Requiem for Peace".

This event is presented in cooperation with the UBC Museum of Anthropology's powerfully moving exhibition "Hiroshima" by Miyako Ishiuchi, which features 52 of her photographs of clothing and personal items belonging to victims at Hiroshima.

Ishiuchi writes, "The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum houses over 19,000 personal effects left behind by those who perished in the bomb. From those, I chose to photograph selected objects that had directly touched their bodies. Most humans are rarely granted a lifetime spanning one century. These objects are afforded a much longer existence, beyond our lifetimes, into worlds beyond. They will survive to testify to a profound trauma, one which will never belong to the past."

An evening of inspiring music and poetry in 11 languages. Join John William Trotter for a pre-concert talk at 7:00pm.

Larry Nickel - Requiem for Peace

The movements are:
Fratres in Unum (Psalm 133)
Requiem aeternam (Roman liturgy)
Long Black Arm (Wilfred Owen)
Ahni Shalom (Psalm 120)
Bani Adam (Sa'adi Shirazi)
Walida rifqu (Ahmad Shawqi)
Kyrie Eleison (Roman liturgy)
Bêtise de la Guerre (Victor Hugo)
Bing Che Xing (Du Fu)
Dvadtsat vosyem shtykovykh (Anna Akhmatova)
Bugles Sang (Wilfred Owen)
Hiroshima Lacrimosa (Toge Sankichi)
Dulce et decorum (Wilfred Owen)
Kinderen van de vrede (Menno Simons)
Wehrlos und verlassen (Carl Röhl)
Reconciliation (Walt Whitman)
Agnus Dei (Roman liturgy)

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