Memorial Music

Our American Memorial Day is not a day dedicated to Memory generally, but to the particular memory of those who have died in the armed service of the nation.  To honor the military dead with a piece inspired by a dedicated pacifist is not the most obvious gesture, but pacifism recoils from war precisely because those very dead are the end product of every war, won or lost, just or otherwise.

So, for this Memorial Day, I offer up Arvo Pärt's Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten, here performed by the self-conducted Boston chamber ensemble A Far Cry:

 

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Comments

[Cathie]

Lovely music~thanks for posting!