Better is peace than always war

And still the cello plays.
Still. The cello plays.

After yesterday’s rehearsal, this evening our choir performed Karl Jenkins's The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace. It was commissioned 15 years ago by the Royal Armouries to mark the transition from one millennium to another and it reflects on ‘the most war-torn and destructive century in human history’. It matters, to us and to them, that we sang it with a school choir we are hosting from Bonn. And that they have invited us to Bonn to sing it with them next March.

The mass also hopes for a more peaceful future. It matters, in the violent and frightening beginning of this century, that, even in multicultural Oxford, part two of the mass, which is the Muslim Call to Prayer, was a recording and not live.




Thank you very much for the unexpected response to yesterday's. It spent a lot of time in spotlight.