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One hundred years on
A concert of reflection and remembrance
Part of the Cheltenham Philharmonic Orchestra 2018/19 Season
Add to my Calendar 11-11-2018 15:00 11-11-2018 17:00 36 One hundred years on Our first concert of the season falls on Armistice Day, one hundred years on from the end of World War I. The programme features music that explores composers reactions to conflict and their experience of war. Vaughan-William’s Pastoral Symphony is an elegy to the dead of the Great War and Britten expresses his life-long pacifism in a work composed in the midst of World War II. We are delighted to present a work by Gloucestershire based composer Alf Tubb which is a memorial to those that died in the Quintinshill rail disaster in May 1915. Join us for an afternoon of wonderful music, reflection and remembrance. Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Pittville Pump Room
East Approach Drive
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire
GL52 3JE
England
Programme
Alf Tubb – Memorial for the victims of Quintinshill (May 1915)
Benjamin Britten – Sinfonia da Requiem, Op.20
~ Interval ~
Ralph Vaughan Williams – A Pastoral Symphony (Symphony no.3)
Performers
Ellie Neate – soprano
Stephen Belinfante – Conductor
Sue Belinfante – Leader
Cheltenham Philharmonic Orchestra
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Programme Note
Our first concert of the season falls on Armistice Day, one hundred years on from the end of World War I. The programme features music that explores composers reactions to conflict and their experience of war. Vaughan-William’s Pastoral Symphony is an elegy to the dead of the Great War and Britten expresses his life-long pacifism in a work composed in the midst of World War II. We are delighted to present a work by Gloucestershire based composer Alf Tubb which is a memorial to those that died in the Quintinshill rail disaster in May 1915. Join us for an afternoon of wonderful music, reflection and remembrance.
