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)
