Summary: Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO November 14 through November 16. With choruses ranging from the brassy splendor of the "Sanctus" to the phantasmagorical hysteria of the "Libera me," Britten's War Requiem is a moving and monumental achievement. But what raises the work to an even greater level is Britten's inspired combination of the traditional Latin Mass with poems by Wilfred Owen, whose modern poetry illuminates the ancient liturgical text.
