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- Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens
A Soldier's Carol (2014)
(The Christmas Truce of 1914)
orch. William David Brohn
- narr + SATB; 3(III:pic).2+ca.2+bcl.2/4.4(IV:bugle).3.1/timp.2perc/pf(cel).org/str
- SATB
- Narrator
- 10 min
- Lynn Ahrens
- English
- 13th December 2026, Cartwright Hall Kent State University, Kent, OH, United States of America
Programme Note
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 1914 Christmas Truce, the Boston Pops and conductor Keith Lockhart commissioned Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens to write A Soldier’s Carol: The Christmas Truce of 1914 for narrator, mixed chorus and orchestra. It premiered at Boston’s Symphony Hall in December, 2014, with orchestration by William David Brohn.
