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Royal Northern College of Music
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9RD
England
Programme
Leonard Bernstein – Chichester Psalms
Sasha Johnson-Manning – War's Embers (world premiere)
Howard Goodall – Eternal Light: A Requiem
Performers
Leonie Maxwell – soprano
Joseph Judge – countertenor
Terence Ayebare – baritone
Neil Taylor – Conductor
Peter Durrant – piano
Graham Eccles – organ
Louise Thomson – Harp
Andrea Vogler – Percussion
St George's Singers, Poynton
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Programme Note
A hundred years after the end of the First World War in 1918, this concert presents three works that allow us to reflect on events of this most momentous of years. Howard Goodall’s Eternal Light is an intensely moving requiem setting of compassion for the grieving, its text including the poem ‘In Flanders Field’. Sasha Johnson Manning’s choral suite War’s Embers was commissioned by the Whittingham Lives project and is based on the poetry of Ivor Gurney, a tragic victim of war who spent many years in an asylum. Leonard Bernstein, born in 1918, combined the Hebrew and Christian choral traditions in his uplifting setting of the Psalms in 1965, a plea for peace in Israel during a turbulent time in the young country’s history.
