- Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens
A Soldier's Carol (2014)
(The Christmas Truce of 1914)- Warner Chappell Music Inc (USA and Canada only)
orch. William David Brohn
- narr + SATB; 3(III:pic).2+ca.2+bcl.2/4.4(IV:bugle).3.1/timp.2perc/pf(cel).org/str
- SATB
- Narrator
- 10 min
- Lynn Ahrens
- English
Programme Note
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 1914 Christmas Truce, the Boston Pops and conductor Keith Lockhart commissioned Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens to write A Soldier’s Carol: The Christmas Truce of 1914 for narrator, mixed chorus and orchestra. It premiered at Boston’s Symphony Hall in December, 2014, with orchestration by William David Brohn.