'Songs of War' St James's Church, Piccadilly, London. Saturday 25 April 2009, 7.30pm

February 7, 2009

The War Poets Association and several single war poet societies are supporting this concert of songs set to poems written by First World War Poets. Organised by the Wilfred Owen Association. The concert will take place at St James’s Church, Piccadilly, London W1 on Saturday, 25 April at 7.30pm.

Programme:

NICHOLAS MULROY tenor
WILLIAM COLEMAN baritone
ANNA TILBROOK piano

Musical settings of First World War poetry by distinguished and contemporary composers, including several first performances:

George Butterworth – Six Songs From a Shropshire Lad
John Ireland – Spring Sorrow, The Soldier, In Flanders Fields
Ivor Gurney – In Flanders, Lights Out, Severn Meadows, The Muggers Song
Edward Eastaway Thomas – Tall Nettles
Gerald Finzi – To Joy, Channel Firing
Benjamin Britten – At a Calvary Near The Ancre
Elaine Hugh-Jones – Songs of War, A Strange Journey
John Jeffreys – Horror Follows Horror, Near Omiecourt
Ian Venables – Pain, Flying Crooked
Cyril Rootham – Everyone Sang, Idyll
Alan Bullard – A Swan, A Man

Tickets: £20, £15, £10 (students £5 off)
Box Office: 01323 641520
Sam Gray: e-mail: swgray@tiscali.co.uk Tel: 01323 641520 Download a booking form (HTML format) to print out and send by post to Sam Gray. Cheques should be made payable to “WOA – Events” please.

Further details: Wilfred Owen Association: www.1914-18.co.uk/owen/activities.htm
St James’s Church, Piccadilly www.st-james-piccadilly.org
St James’s Church, Piccadilly (diary pages – scroll down to 25 April): www.st-james-piccadilly.org/diary.html