Last Train to Tomorrow at Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester on Saturday 3rd August 2019

Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

Last Train to Tomorrow

Part of the Three Choirs Festival Gloucester 2019

Add to my Calendar 03-08-2019 13:15 03-08-2019 15:15 36 Last Train to Tomorrow Eighty years to the day since the last Kindertransport left Prague, this poignant piece reimagines the thoughts and feelings of the Jewish children fleeing persecution, the families they left behind, and the open-hearted British people who took them in. This semi-staged performance is the culmination of a term working with children from across Gloucestershire, and welcomes back some of our young performers from Hereford in 2018, plus features music from ‘The Big String’ project which takes place in Gloucester each February. Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Gloucester Cathedral
College Green
Gloucester
Gloucestershire
GL1 2LX
England

Saturday 3rd August 2019
1:15 PM

Programme

Gustav Holst – St Paul's Suite, Op.29 no.2
Carl Davis – Last Train to Tomorrow

Performers

Nia Llewelyn Jones – Conductor
Glyn Oxley – Conductor

Gloucestershire Youth Players
Gloucestershire Academy of Music Strings
Three Choirs Children’s Chorus

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Programme Note

Eighty years to the day since the last Kindertransport left Prague, this poignant piece reimagines the thoughts and feelings of the Jewish children fleeing persecution, the families they left behind, and the open-hearted British people who took them in. This semi-staged performance is the culmination of a term working with children from across Gloucestershire, and welcomes back some of our young performers from Hereford in 2018, plus features music from ‘The Big String’ project which takes place in Gloucester each February.

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