Trinity College Chapel
Introduced by Flor Mac Carthy, RTÉ Reflecting the Rising
How music can engage with the commemoration of war and critique it, focusing on the requiem compositions by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill (“Berliner Requiem”, 1928) about WW1 and Benjamin Britten (“War Requiem”, 1962) about WW2.
Dr Wolfgang Marx, Senior Lecturer in Musicology, UCD.
Photograph courtesy of the South Dublin Libraries