Princeton Pro Musica is set to open its 35th season of choral masterworks with poignant meditations on war in the shadow of World War I.
“Beat! Beat! Drums!” is scheduled for 8 p.m. Nov. 9 at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium. The concert honors Veteran’s Day in America and Remembrance Day in Britain.
The program is set to feature Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem. The cantata sets texts from Walt Whitman, John Bright and the Bible.
Vaughan Williams served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during WWI and witnessed firsthand the third Battle of Ypres, which took the lives of more than 1.2 million soldiers
Also on the program is Edward Cone’s Dover Beach. By late Princeton University professor, composer and theorist, Cone, Dover Beach is a setting of a poem by Matthew Arnold.
Additionally, PPM is set to perform Jeffrey Van’s A Procession Winding Around Me, which is also set to poetry by Whitman.
The PPM Orchestra brass and percussion is set to play Aaron Copland’s magisterial Fanfare for the Common Man.
Soloists are soprano Jo Ellen Miller, baritone Paul Max Tipton and guitarist James Day.
Ticket prices range from $25 to $55.
More information is online at princetonpromusica.org.
