Tierra Whetstone

Tierra Whetstone is a mezzo-soprano scheduled to appear as soloist with the Evanston Symphony Orchestra, performing the Benedictus from Karl Jenkins's The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace. No further biographical details are available in our records.

Listeners will hear Whetstone in the Benedictus movement of Jenkins's The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace, a work written in the late 1990s that moves from depictions of war toward a plea for reconciliation. The Benedictus is one of the score's quieter, more reflective sections, built around a solo cello line before the chorus and orchestra enter, and it calls for a voice that can sustain long, calm phrases rather than dramatic display. The same program pairs this with Haydn's Symphony No. 100, nicknamed the "Military" Symphony for its use of percussion instruments associated with military bands, so the concert as a whole moves between eighteenth century orchestral wit and a contemporary meditation on conflict and peace.