Ipswich Remembers: Commemorating local stories from the Great War of 1914-18 and featuring ‘Eternal Light: A Requiem’ by Howard Goodall at Corn Exchange, Ipswich on Saturday 17th March 2018

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Ipswich Remembers

Commemorating local stories from the Great War of 1914-18 and featuring ‘Eternal Light: A Requiem’ by Howard Goodall

Add to my Calendar 17-03-2018 19:30 17-03-2018 21:30 36 Ipswich Remembers To mark the centenary of the end of the First World War, music, dance, poetry and animation combine to create an immersive, thought-provoking and moving event. Remembering the town's part in that conflict with personal stories of Ipswich people, both at home and on the front lines, leading up to and during wartime. Choreographer Mary Davies, supported by DanceEast, with a community cast from across Ipswich, will enact the stories with music specially commissioned from composer Huw Morgan. The Suffolk Poetry Society and historians from Ipswich Choral Society will recreate the news and people's experiences amongst songs from the war years. The performance concludes with Ipswich Choral Society and Music Director Robin Walker, performing "Eternal Light: A Requiem" by Howard Goodall. The soloists are soprano Gwendolen Martin and tenor Tom Randle. This 'enhanced' performance of Eternal Light: A Requiem with its associated project involving so many different creative and participating components in the Ipswich community is a fantastic idea and I wholeheartedly and enthusiastically support it. I am very humbled that my piece is acting as a catalyst in bringing people together to mark the 100th anniversary of the conclusion of World War One, a centenary that reminds us powerfully that there is no hell described in the original Latin Mass for the Dead that is more terrifying than the man-made catastrophe of that conflict. It was that thought that drove me to focus the Dies Irae movement of my Requiem towards the 1915 poem In Flanders Fields by Canadian military doctor John McCrae, who himself died of pneumonia on the Western Front in January 1918. This is the poem that inspired the choice of the poppy as a symbol of Remembrance in the aftermath of the Great War. I send my warmest wishes to all involved in this very special Ipswich Choral Society endeavour. Howard Goodall CBE November 2017 Ipswich RemembersSaturday 17 March 2018, 2.30pm / 7.30pm www.ipswichchoralsociety.org Ipswich Choral Society Registered Charity Number 278866.Ipswich Remembers is supported by Arts Council England National Lottery funding. Corn Exchange, Ipswich DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Corn Exchange
King Street
Ipswich
Suffolk
IP1 1DH
England

Saturday 17th March 2018
7:30 PM

Programme

Howard Goodall – Eternal Light: A Requiem (2008)
Huw Morgan – Ipswich Remembers (New composition)

Performers

Robin Walker – Conductor
Gwen Martin – soprano
Tom Randle – Tenor

Ipswich Choral Society

Programme Note

To mark the centenary of the end of the First World War, music, dance, poetry and animation combine to create an immersive, thought-provoking and moving event. Remembering the town's part in that conflict with personal stories of Ipswich people, both at home and on the front lines, leading up to and during wartime.

Choreographer Mary Davies, supported by DanceEast, with a community cast from across Ipswich, will enact the stories with music specially commissioned from composer Huw Morgan. The Suffolk Poetry Society and historians from Ipswich Choral Society will recreate the news and people's experiences amongst songs from the war years.

The performance concludes with Ipswich Choral Society and Music Director Robin Walker, performing "Eternal Light: A Requiem" by Howard Goodall. The soloists are soprano Gwendolen Martin and tenor Tom Randle.

This 'enhanced' performance of Eternal Light: A Requiem with its associated project involving so many different creative and participating components in the Ipswich community is a fantastic idea and I wholeheartedly and enthusiastically support it. I am very humbled that my piece is acting as a catalyst in bringing people together to mark the 100th anniversary of the conclusion of World War One, a centenary that reminds us powerfully that there is no hell described in the original Latin Mass for the Dead that is more terrifying than the man-made catastrophe of that conflict. It was that thought that drove me to focus the Dies Irae movement of my Requiem towards the 1915 poem In Flanders Fields by Canadian military doctor John McCrae, who himself died of pneumonia on the Western Front in January 1918. This is the poem that inspired the choice of the poppy as a symbol of Remembrance in the aftermath of the Great War. I send my warmest wishes to all involved in this very special Ipswich Choral Society endeavour.

Howard Goodall CBE November 2017

Ipswich Remembers
Saturday 17 March 2018, 2.30pm / 7.30pm

www.ipswichchoralsociety.org

Ipswich Choral Society Registered Charity Number 278866.
Ipswich Remembers is supported by Arts Council England National Lottery funding.

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