Atlanta Symphony Orchestra At Carnegie Hall
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014
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Moments before the music begins, Robert Spano greets the Atlanta Symphony Concertmaster David Coucheron (left) and soloists, tenor Thomas Cooley and baritone Stephen Powell (right).
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Conductor Robert Spano leads the orchestra and chorus in Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, music written for the 1962 rededication of the cathedral in Coventry, England, destroyed in a 1940 air raid.
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Program
Britten: War Requiem
Evelina Dobračeva, soprano
Thomas Cooley, tenor
Stephen Powell, baritone
Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Robert Spano, conductor
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