Cambridge Choir at Concert for Peace

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Details: A special ‘Concert for Peace’ will be taking place in the Basilique in Echternach on Sunday 29 June 2014 at 20:30.

The performance will be given by the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, with the European Union Baroque Orchestra (EUBO) under the direction of Lars Ulrik Mortensen. The concert will mark the 100th anniversary of the incident which sparked the first World War: the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28 June 1914. The music to be performed reflects the occasion with magnificant choral works by Handel, his Te Deum for the Peace of Utrecht and the Ode for Queen Anne (both written in 1713), Croft’s The Soul of Musick is the Soul of Peace, an orchestral work by Muffat ‘harmony of nations’ and Clare Choir, conducted by their Music Director Graham Ross, will sing Howells’ evocative motet Take him Earth for cherishing, which was composed in memoriam J F Kennedy.