The Music Office's Youth and Children's Choir will perform at the "War & Peace" concert to be held at the Sai Wan Ho Civic Centre Theatre at 3pm on January 8.
The choirs will sing songs related to war, from Verdi's
Triumphal Scene from Aida and
Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Nabucco to Moses Hogan's
Battle of Jericho, David Brunner's
A Song to End All War,
Go to War Song from an Atayal tribe folk song and James Syler's
Dear Sarah.
Peace songs include Mendelssohn's
Verleih uns Frieden, Kurt Bestor's
Prayer of the Children, Lois Brownsey and Marti Lunn Lantz's
Sing World Peace and Paul Read's
Birdsong.
Angelina Au, Stephen Ho and Yau Man-ching will conduct.
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