In commemoration of the 100th anniversaries of the World War I armistice and the independence of Poland, the Society will present two 20th Century Polish masterworks. Górecki’s Euntes ibant et flebant (“They who go forth and weep) is sung in Latin by an a cappella chorus, and Szymanowski’s Stabat mater infuses the traditional liturgical text of with Polish folk rhythms and melodies. The concert concludes with Vaughan Williams’s Dona nobis pacem, which looks back at recent wars and makes a plea for peace even as a new war threatens.

Susanna Phillips, soprano
Ewa Plonka, mezzo-soprano
Jesse Blumberg, baritone
Chorus and the Orchestra of the Society

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