In Memoriam: Songs of the Great War

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2015, 6:30 PM | NATIONAL WORLD WAR I MUSEUM & MEMORIAL, KANSAS CITY, MO

The Brooklyn Art Song Societyperforms “In Memoriam: Songs of the Great War,” a program featuring works by British composers whose lives were cut tragically short by World War I: William Dennis Browne, George Butterworth and Ivor Gurney. The performers for this program include Missouri-native tenor Dominic Armstrong, baritone Jarrett Ott  and pianist and BASS artistic director Michael Brofman. Cash bar and small plates are available at 6 p.m. with the performance beginning at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 for Museum members and $12 for non-members. Veterans will be admitted free with RSVP as guests of the National World War I Museum.

Adrienne Landry Dunavin is a member of the Kansas WWI Centennial Commemoration Committee and is the primary administrator of KansasWW1.org. She worked at the KU Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies as their Outreach Coordinator from 2010-2016. During that time she served on the KU WWI Centennial Commemoration Working Group. She continues to volunteer as a representative for CREES and KU WWI on this blog.