SONGS OF WAR AND PEACE
by Ted Ricketts
For Your GRAMMY® Consideration
Best Contemporary Classical Composition
Best Engineered Album, Classical
“Songs of War and Peace composed by Ted Ricketts is a new modern masterwork. It is powerful, elegant, poignant, and uplifting.
The text speaks to the horrors of war through carefully curated poem selection but leaves us with hope for the future in the joyful “Dona Nobis Pacem” section that finishes the piece and challenges each of us to be part of the solution for peace.
Songs of War and Peace will be loved equally by the music makers and the audience. It is fun to sing and play and captures the audience from the downbeat to final chord.
I love this work, and it would be impossible to recommend it with more enthusiasm. It carries an important message for the times we live and will be found in the canon of great choral works in the future.”
John V. Sinclair
Bach Festival Society of Winter Park
Artistic Director and Conductor
The text speaks to the horrors of war through carefully curated poem selection but leaves us with hope for the future in the joyful “Dona Nobis Pacem” section that finishes the piece and challenges each of us to be part of the solution for peace.
Songs of War and Peace will be loved equally by the music makers and the audience. It is fun to sing and play and captures the audience from the downbeat to final chord.
I love this work, and it would be impossible to recommend it with more enthusiasm. It carries an important message for the times we live and will be found in the canon of great choral works in the future.”
John V. Sinclair
Bach Festival Society of Winter Park
Artistic Director and Conductor
Composer: Ted Ricketts
Lyricist: Sarah Lee Moore
Lyricist: Sherilyn Draper
Tracks 1-4 based on poems by Walt Whitman, Siegfried Sassoon, and Stephen Crane
Track 5 lyrics by Ted Ricketts, Sherilyn Draper, and Sarah Moore
Lyricist: Sarah Lee Moore
Lyricist: Sherilyn Draper
Tracks 1-4 based on poems by Walt Whitman, Siegfried Sassoon, and Stephen Crane
Track 5 lyrics by Ted Ricketts, Sherilyn Draper, and Sarah Moore
SONGS OF WAR AND PEACE
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Download the Songs of War and Peace Album Booklet
Conductor: John V. Sinclair
Bach Festival Society of Winter Park Choir and Orchestra
Recorded at Steinmetz Hall, Orlando, Florida
Executive Producer: Andy de Ganahl
Producer: Ted Ricketts
Publisher: Great Ideas Creative Group
Recording and Mixing Engineer: Kendall Thomsen
Mastering Engineer:Kendall Thomsen
Listen to the Insights and Sounds podcast interview
with composer Ted Ricketts, where he explores the themes
and inspirations behind his Choral Symphony, Songs of War and Peace.
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