SHEPHERDSTOWN -- On Saturday at 7:30 p.m., the Masterworks Chorale and Shepherd University Chamber Singers will be bringing three works by celebrated English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams to the Frank Arts Center stage.

The works -- the cantatas "Dona Nobis Pacem" and "In Windsor Forest" and the anthem "O How Amiable" -- highlight Williams' varying perspectives on life, hope and peace, after serving in France and Greece as an ambulance orderly for the Royal Army Medical Corps in World War I.

"Vaughan Williams is writing at a very unique time in history, at the start of mechanized warfare," said Shepherd University Director of Choral and Vocal Activities Jason Strunk. "That was what was remarkable about World War I -- we had all of these technological advances. The carnage in war was pr

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