Rudyard Kipling’s family’s World War I experience inspired oratorio
By Becky Malewitz South Bend Tribune May 17, 2018 Inspired by a Pietá-like painting of a mother in an Iraq desert holding her deceased soldier son, composer John Muehleisen set out to write a choral piece that captured wartime loss by searching for a letter written...Maestro Alastair Willis joined us last night to rehearse Haydn’s "Paukenmesse", up next with South Bend Symphony Orchestra on Sunday, March 24th! We will also perform works by choral composer Jake Runestad. For more details, and to order tickets, visit www.southbendsymphony.org/concert/haydn-paukenmesse
We don't always rehearse during the Super Bowl, but when we do, we sing German Latin! Can we keep this intensity up until "halftime?"
Celebrating an “up-and-coming” composer’s birthday by singing his work at rehearsal . . .