SALEM – The Paul Madore Chorale will present “The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace” this Saturday at Salem High School, 77 Wilson St., at 8 p.m.This is the North Shore premier for the show by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins. “The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace” was commissioned by the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds for the Millennium celebrations and was initially dedicated to victims of the Kosovo crisis. Like Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem before it, this piece is based on the Christian Mass which he combines with other sources, principally the 15th century folk song L’homme armé in the first and last movements.The Mass includes words from the Islamic call to prayer, the Bible, the Ordinary of the Mass and excerpts from the works of Rudyard Kipling and Alfred Lord Tennyson, as well as a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing. It was first performed in 2000 at the Royal Albert Hall in London and at that time it was dedicated to the victims of Kosovo.Since 1966, The Paul Madore Chorale has brought quality choral music to audiences on the North Shore. The Salem-based group has approximately 50 members from 18 area communities.Paul Madore is the musical director for the show, which features soloists Maria DiStefano (mezzo-soprano) and Colman Reaboi (baritone).If You Go?Tickets are $25 for adults and $20 forseniors and students. Tickets are available at Ted Cole’s Music Shop, 30 Church St., Salem and Arnould Gallery and Framery, 111 Washington St., Marblehead. Tickets are also available online at www.paulmadorechorale.org.