The Somme, July 1916
Text read and Music played:
1. Elgar: ‚Sospiri‘ (1914)
2. R. Brooke: ‚The Soldier‘ (1915)
3. ‚It’s a Long Way to Tipperary‘ (1914)
4. Capt. C. May: Diary entry (July 1, 1916)
5. Holst: ‚Mars – the Bringer of War‘, from ‚The Planets Suite‘
6. E. A. Mackintosh: ‚High Wood‘
7. S. Sassoon: ‚The General‘
8. W. Owen: ‚Dulce et Decorum est‘
9. ‚Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag‘
10. Elgar: ‚Nimrod‘ (from ‚Enigma Variations‘)
11. P.Nash: ‚….hopeless‘
12. W. Owen: ‚Futility‘
13. Britten: ‚War Requiem‘ (‚Lacrimosa‘)
14. W. Owen: ‚Anthem for Doomed Youth‘
15. Britten: ‚War Requiem‘ (‚Requiem Aeternam‘)
16. ‚Keep the home fires burning‘
17. Butterworth: ‚The Banks of Green Willow‘ (1913)
18. A. Waugh: ‚From Albert to Bapaume‘ (1918)
19. I. Rosenberg: ‚Returning, We Hear the Larks‘
20. L. Coulson: ‚From the Somme‘
21. ‚Roses of Picardy‘
infos:
the somme (Wikipedia)
