Corbin with his host family when staying in the Quad Cities.
To sing the Britten War Requiem in 2012, fifty years after its debut in 1962 and in the eleventh year of various US wars abroad, was for me a sober reminder of the persistent futility of war. Wilfred Owen described in his poems the folly of violence and lives squandered in battle, words that Europe and the world needed still to hear in Coventry some forty five years after the poems were first written and which need to be heard just as desperately today as sabers continue to rattle. To live in Owen's words and Britten's music, to reanimate their message of peace and nonviolence was for me a singular honor not soon to be forgotten.
--Corbin Treacy, Ph.D. candidate in French studies, University Singers tenor
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