On Sept. 10, at St. Mary Magdalene’s Cathedral in Wrocław (Poland), as part of the 60th Wratislavia Cantans International Music Festival, the premiere of Zygmunt Krauze’s “Children’s Requiem” will take place.

The work features two soloists, two children’s choirs, a mixed choir and an orchestra. The composition is a loud and poignant cry of protest against the evil that affects the most innocent and defenceless among us every day.

The mass is intended as a funeral mass dedicated to all children killed in conflicts and wars in the modern world, in which, instead of liturgical text, audiences will hear the harsh, moving figures from UN reports, as well as shocking excerpts from the memories of witnesses to children’s tragedies and the testimonies of young warriors.

In a statement Krauze’ said, “I cannot and will not remain indifferent to the mass killing of children that takes place every day in various parts of the world. I had to compose music that expresses my pain and opposition to the cruelty of modern wars, in which thousands of the most defenceless among us are being annihilated.”

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