Living in peace and harmonies

Anti-war oratorio ‘A Child of Our Time’ will open Cork choral festival, says Jo Kerrigan.

‘A Child of Our Time’ was sparked by the appalling events that led to the Nazi pogroms against the Jews

NEXT Wednesday’s opening gala of the Cork International Choral Festival promises to be dramatic. Michael Tippett’s emotion-stirring oratorio, ‘A Child of Our Time’, will be sung by the Fleischmann Choir with members of the Philharmonische Choir of Cologne, and the Cork School of Music Symphony Orchestra. Soloists will be Mary Hegarty, soprano; Bridget Knowles, contralto; Robin Tritschler, tenor; and Owen Gilhooly, baritone.