Absorbing music for difficult times

Absorbing music for difficult times

Louis Sharpe conducting. Photo: Martin Ollman Music / The Armed Man, Canberra Choral Society and the National Capital Orchestra, conducted by Louis Sharpe. At Llewellyn Hall, July 5. Reviewed by ALANNA MACLEAN. This splendid program that filled the Llewellyn stage with a big choir and orchestra might have been entitled The Armed Man, but it opened with Elena Kats-Chernin’s Human Waves, a series of sharp reflections on elements of migrations to A…