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The Lad in Their Hundreds
Part of the Clifton International Festival of Music 2018
Add to my Calendar 30-06-2018 13:15 30-06-2018 15:15 36 The Lad in Their Hundreds A vivid journey through song exploring expressions of war in music with National Opera Studio young artist Edmund Danon. The programme includes George Butterworth’s lilting setting of A E Houseman’s poem, The Lads in their Hundreds, Schumann’s Die Beiden Grenadier, a dramatic account of the return of soldiers from war, and an emotive story of a young man’s coming of age in Youth and Love from Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel. St Paul's Church, Bristol DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St Paul's Church
St Paul's Road
Clifton
Bristol
BS8 1LP
England
Programme
George Butterworth – 6 Songs from A Shropshire Lad: 5, 'The Lads in Their Hundreds'
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Songs of Travel: 'Youth and Love'
Robert Schumann – Die Beiden Grenadiere, Op.49 no.1
Performers
Edmund Danon – bass-baritone
Douglas Stevens – piano
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Programme Note
A vivid journey through song exploring expressions of war in music with National Opera Studio young artist Edmund Danon.
The programme includes George Butterworth’s lilting setting of A E Houseman’s poem, The Lads in their Hundreds, Schumann’s Die Beiden Grenadier, a dramatic account of the return of soldiers from war, and an emotive story of a young man’s coming of age in Youth and Love from Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel.
