THE ARMED MAN A MASS FOR PEACE BY KARL JENKINS CONCERT FOUR Saturday May, 2015, 5.00 pm Wesley Uniting Church 100 Yarra Street Geelong 2nd PROGRAM The Geelong Chorale Allister Cox, conductor Alison Ralph, alto John Seal, percussion 1 Johnson Ho, percussion 2 David Gallaher, trumpet 1 Waadhi Conole, trumpet 2 Oscar Senftleben, trumpet 3 Jeanette Carnie, cello Prue Farnsworth, flute/piccolo Kristine Mellens, piano Beverley Phillips, organ The Armed Man – A Mass for Peace - Karl Jenkins (b 1944) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 L’homme armé (‘The Armed Man’) The Call to Prayers Kyrie eleison (Lord have mercy) Save me from bloody men Sanctus (Holy, Holy, Holy) Hymn before action Charge Angry flames Torches Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) Now the guns have stopped Benedictus (Blessed is he) Better is peace Commissioned for the millennium by Britain’s Royal Armouries, and dedicated to the victims of the Kosovo crisis, this work is a contemporary example of a mass based on the 15th century French song L’homme armé (The Armed Man). Set within the framework of the Christian mass, The Armed Man is a major choral work which uses both sacred and secular texts. The poignancy and relevance of the work is heightened by the fact that a CD of the work by The London Philharmonia Orchestra and the National Youth Choir of Great Britain was released on 10 September, 2001, the day before the tragic events in the United States. Source: Boosey and Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd www.boosey.com Notes and translations will be supplied.