Helensburgh Oratorio Choir brings this work to Helensburgh on 23rd November 2025. The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace is a mass by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins. It was commissioned by the Royal Armouries Museum for the Millennium celebrations, to mark the museum’s move from London to Leeds, and was dedicated to victims of the Kosovo crisis. Like Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem before it, it is essentially an anti-war piece and is based on the Catholic Mass, which Jenkins combines with other sources, principally the 15th-century folk song “L’homme armé” in the first and last movements, as well as during the Kyrie.
The choir will be joined by an Orchestra from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) and conducted by Susannah Wapshott. There will be no interval but you are invited to join us for refreshments in hall after the concert.

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