Chancel Choir of the First Unitarian Church of Berkeley
Credited on the record as Chancel Choir, First Unitarian Church, Berkeley, Ca..
Requiem for Viet Nam
1974 · First Unitarian Church of Berkeley NRL 8 · Berkeley, California
- Artist
- Chancel Choir of the First Unitarian Church of Berkeley
- Credited on the record as
- Chancel Choir, First Unitarian Church, Berkeley, Ca.
- Title
- Requiem for Viet Nam
- Release
- Masses in Time of War
- Year
- 1974
- Label
- First Unitarian Church of Berkeley # NRL 8
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Berkeley, California, USA
- Songwriter
- Arthur Hills (music); text chosen by Rev. Richard F. Boeke
- Genre
- Western Classical Music · Choral · Church Music
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Notes
First Unitarian Church of Berkeley NRL 8, stereo, matrix USR 7496-A/B, © 1974 First Unitarian Church of Berkeley, 1 Lawson Road, Berkeley, California 94707; "Masses in Time of War", performed 1974 at the church by the Chancel Choir, directed by Phyllis Wells, Arthur Hills organist; recorded by Walter H. Nelson. Side A: "Requiem for Vietnam" by Arthur Hills, 1974, text chosen by Rev. Richard F. Boeke, in eleven parts: Prelude (flutes, bells and gongs); The Stilling of the Breath (Lyon Phelps); Hymn: With Malice Toward None; The Fury of Aerial Bombardment (Richard Eberhart, by permission, courtesy Oxford University Press); Anthem: Vietnam, Vietnam; Male Chorus: The Soldiers Came; The Voices of Soldiers; Hymn: The Holy Army Trampled; Plainchant: Eternal God; Mantra: Rice and Lice, and Chorus of Women; Peace on Earth. Side B: Joseph Haydn's "Mass in Time of War" (1796): Gloria, Credo, Agnus…
About the artist
Church choir of the First Unitarian Church of Berkeley, California, directed by Phyllis Wells, with Arthur Hills as organist. [Source: record sleeve]