A beautiful symphony hall is like a sanctuary. It’s a place where members of a community gather to share a common experience. With phones off and conversations muted, there is communion between people ...

"My subject is war and the pity of War... All a poet can do today is warn." These lines come from Wilfred Owen, a British poet and soldier who died at age 25 just one week before the armistice that ...

Listening to Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem” on the weekend of March 3-4 reconnected me with the war poetry of Wilfred Owen. I had read many of his poems at Augustana College, but to hear some of ...