My choir, the Metropolitan Chorale of Brookline, is performing Karl Jenkin’s The Armed Man: A Mass For Peace on May 4 at Jordan Hall. If you are in Boston, please do come!

The Armed Man, a 21st century anti-war composition, evokes the descent into war; moments of reflection; the horrors that war brings; and the hope for peace. The concert has been long-planned, but the piece, a non-traditional setting of the Mass which begins and ends with the French Renaissance tune L’homme Armé, is most appropriate for a concert in this season, in Boston.