This piece was commissioned alongside works like Michael Tippett’s King Priam after the destruction of Coventry Cathedral in a bombing raid. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this work whose premiere at the reconstructed cathedral launched a tradition of using a second conductor to manage the chamber orchestra. The text of this piece interweaves nine poems by Wilfred Owen.
ANSWER: War Requiem, Op. 66
[10e] This English composer of the War Requiem also collected a set of Four Sea Interludes from his opera Peter Grimes.
ANSWER: Benjamin Britten [or Edward Benjamin Britten]
[10h] In the War Requiem, this kind of ensemble performs from offstage accompanied by a portable organ. Britten’s Missa brevis is scored for this ensemble and organ.
ANSWER: boys’ choir [accept children’s choir or treble choir; accept chorus in place of “choir”; prompt on choir or chorus; reject “male choir” or “male chorus”]
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