Festival of Words and Music
Pacifist Amidst the Ruins: Benjamin Britten and the Angels of History

Part 3

Sun, 10/29/2023
4:00 PM - 17:30 Goethe-Institut Boston

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Time's Echo Live: Eine Erkundung von Musik, Krieg und Erinnerung, Teil 3

Words: Britten was one of the century’s greatest musical pacifists, the consummate insider who saw himself as an outsider, and a man (in Yehudi Menuhin’s description) who possessed “a profound sense of community with the suffering world.”  Our third program recounts Britten’s zero hour of the soul — his extraordinary recital tour of Germany’s Displaced Person camps in July 1945 — and unlocks the secrets of his celebrated “War Requiem.” 

Music: Britten, Chacony from String Quartet No. 2

Performed by
Nicholas Kitchen, violin
Kristopher Tong, violin
Nicholas Cords, viola
Yeesun Kim, cello