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Holy Sepulchre Church (Musicians’ Church)
Holborn Viaduct
Holborn, City of London
London
EC1A 2DQ
England
Tickets
Prices: £15/£12
Book Tickets
Programme
Raymond Yiu – The Names of the Earth
Modest Mussorgsky – The Orphan
Edgar Leslie Bainton – The Twilight People
Errollyn Wallen – Peace on Earth
Roxanna Panufnik – Dalia
Performers
Samantha Crawford – soprano
Berrak Dyer – Piano
Other concerts in this Series (+)
Programme Note
The programme touches on themes of Homeland, Exile, War, Family, Hope and New Beginnings. Freedom Cries Out features a newly commissioned song cycle by Raymond Yiu, setting stories from real refugee accounts taken from literary magazine, 'The Other Side of Hope.' It also includes the UK premiere of Shawn Okpebholo's song cycle 'Words Like Freedom,' setting poems of Langston Hughes, and Jake Heggie's 'These Strangers.' These cycles sit alongside selected songs by Errollyn Wallen, Cecilia McDowall, Cheryl Frances-Hoad amongst others. The programme features two newly created songs from arias in Roxanna Panufnik's opera, 'Dalia' (Garsington Opera, 2022), telling the story of a Syrian refugee girl as she crosses the Mediterranean Sea.
