Choral Arts is one of the premier choral organizations in the United States, bringing world-class symphonic choral performances to the Washington DC region for more than five decades.
The Choral Arts Society of Washington will bring Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Dona Nobis Pacem, a 40-minute plea for peace written in 1936 as Europe moved toward another world war, to Alexandria’s Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center on April 18th. This timely concert asks the audience to imagine how we create peace in an era dominated by strife.
What makes this performance unlike anything in the area this season: midway through the concert, the music pauses. Professor Peter Loge, Director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University, will lead the audience through a guided civic conversation about the questions the music raises. Not a lecture, but a genuine moment of reflection, together, in the room. (more…)