Performances & Tickets

HOLIDAY 2010 A Ceremony of Carols Friday, December 10, 2010 • 7:30 pm • $10

St. Michael Lutheran Church
109 East Doe Run Road, Unionville, PA 19375

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The BVC opens our fourth season with a Christmas concert featuring A Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten. Written in 1942—it consists of 11 movements—the texts of which came from poems by Gerald Bullett in Middle English. We will also be performing Stephen Paulus’ Three Nativity Carols, Kirke Mechem’s The Seven Joys of Christmas, plus traditional holiday favorites.

Online tickets will be mailed if ordered before 12/1—otherwise, will be held at door. Children under 13, free. (Tickets available at door.)

Spring 2011 The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace Date & Venue to be determined

The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace is the name of a Mass by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins. The piece was commissioned by the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds for the Millennium celebrations and was initially dedicated to victims of the Kosovo crisis. The Armed Man can also be seen as a tribute to those who perished in the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001, one day after the mass was released to the public. Like Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem before it, it is essentially an anti-war piece. Also like Britten's work, this piece is based on the Catholic Mass which he combines with other sources, principally the fifteenth century folk song L'homme armé in the first and last movements.