The Peacemakers

The ROS and special guests, the Genesee Valley Children’s Choir and the RITA collective, present an iconic work for a new age: Karl Jenkins’s “The Peacemakers,” a 73-minute, multi-media, world-music masterpiece, featuring texts by the Dalai Lama, Ghandi, Terry Waits, Rumi, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Jr. and many others.

This production is sponsored in part by the Rochester Area Community Foundation and Suzanne Gouvernet with major support from Boosey & Hawkes. It is also sponsored by a Humanities New York Vision/Action Grant. This project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Genesee Valley Council on the Arts.

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The Rochester Oratorio Society presents “Peacemakers Preview,” Thursday, March 28, 7:00-8:15 P.M. at Writers & Books, 740 University Ave, Rochester, NY 14607. Memorial Art Gallery docent Lucy Durkin will preview the projections she has curated to accompany the music, including iconic images of the authors of the texts in “The Peacemakers.” Choreographer Thomas Warfield discusses his work with the NTID Dancers, to be featured on the program. ROS Artistic Director Eric Townell gives behind-the-scenes details of the development of this project involving more than 200 performers. Parking and admission are free.

The University of Rochester Humanities Center presents “Perspectives on ‘The Peacemakers'” April 4 at 7:30 in the University of Rochester Humanities Center. Speakers will be:

Douglas Brooks, Professor of Religion and Classics, who has a focus on spirituality and mysticism

Andrew Cashner, Assistant Professor of Musicology, who taught a course recently on “Music and Religion”

Allison Stokes, Ph.D., former UR Protestant chaplain interested in Gandhi and spirituality, and also interested in “The Peacemakers” as a set of texts

Parking and admission are free (use the Rush Rhees Library parking lot).