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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> artsstaff-bounces@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca [mailto:artsstaff-bounces@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Theresa Bauer<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 11, 2013 7:00 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> artsstaff@watarts.uwaterloo.ca; artsfac@watarts.uwaterloo.ca<br>
<b>Cc:</b> ldamato@therecord.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Britten's War Requiem opens Grand Philharmonic Choir season!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><strong><span style="color:#222222">The Grand Philharmonic Choir opens its 2013-14 season on</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color:#222222"> </span></b></span><span class="aqj"><b><span style="color:#222222">October
19th</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color:#222222"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="color:#222222">with a rare performance of Benjamin Britten's masterpiece, <i>War Requiem.</i>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222">The bleak grandeur of this masterpiece for choir and orchestra was created by Britten in the aftermath of the Second World War, and is an eloquent plea for peace. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222">Britten's music -- by turns terrifying and heartbreakingly beautiful -- is combined with the familiar words of the Requiem Mass and the stark images of soldier-poet Wilfred Owen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222">"This monumental work is a testament to the horrors of the Second World War, in particular, and the affliction of human conflict in general," said
<strong>Mark Vuorinen</strong>, artistic director and conductor of the choir.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222">As the musical world celebrates Britten's centenary year (he was born in 1913), nearly 100 performances of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>War Requiem
</i>are planned all over the world. This is the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>only</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Canadian performance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222">The Grand Philharmonic Choir, including its youth and children's choirs, will be joined by the Laurier Singers and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>University of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Waterloo
Chamber Choir<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for a total of 200 singers at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Kitchener's Centre in the Square.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222">Soloists<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Leslie Ann Bradley</b>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Thomas Cooley</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Russell
Braun</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>will join the choirs and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, all under the baton of Vuorinen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222">Tickets are $20 to $75, with $10 tickets available for those under 30, and $5 tickets for high school students.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><strong><span style="color:#222222">SPECIAL PRICING FOR UW ARTS FACULTY AND STAFF: Use the code 'CHOIR' to receive a 20% discount </span></strong><span style="color:#222222">when ordering through the Centre in the
Square box office:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="tel:519-578-1570" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">519-578-1570</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>or<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.centreinthesquare.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">www.centreinthesquare.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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