Peacemakers

on April 5, 2019 at Hochstein Performance Hall

Jenkins: The Peacemakers


Contemporary Welsh composer, Karl Jenkins, CBE, set some of humanity's most compelling texts in this 73 minute, multi-media, world-music masterpiece.  The Nazareth College Choir, the East High School Choir and the ROS sing words of peace by the Dalai Lama, Gandhi, Terry Waits, Rumi, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King and many others, to the accompaniment of RITA collective's brilliant multi-instrumentalists.  For our fourth annual collaboration with the University of Rochester Humanities Center, we welcome the Rochester Public Library, Thomas Warfield and PeaceArt, NTID, an Writers & Books to our community-wide commemoration.

Rochester Oratorio Society

The Rochester Oratorio Society, founded in 1945, an auditioned symphonic chorus, produces 4-6 performances per season of the highest quality, performs with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, collaborates frequently with the leading arts organizations in the region, and produces the annual international solo vocal competition, Rochester International Vocal Competition.