{"id":7853,"date":"2016-11-01T10:15:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T10:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=7853"},"modified":"2016-11-21T15:36:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T15:36:35","slug":"three-events-commemorating-world-war-one-next-week-memorial-ground-last-post-and-lunchtime-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2016\/11\/01\/three-events-commemorating-world-war-one-next-week-memorial-ground-last-post-and-lunchtime-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Three events commemorating World War One next week: Memorial Ground, Last Post and Lunchtime Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of the Music department’s observing of the anniversary of World War One, including the Battle of the Somme, three events next week.<\/p>\n

\"memorial-ground1\"On Thursday 10 November<\/strong>, a special performance by the Cecilian Choir,<\/strong>\u00a0conducted by Your Loyal Correspondent, commemorates the anniversary of the Battle of the Somme with \u00a0a new choral piece written by American composer David Lang in Studio 3 Gallery.\u00a0Memorial Ground<\/em> is an evocative, haunting meditation on the Battle of the Somme, but also reaches beyond it to commemorate all those who have lost their lives in conflict ever since. The piece was commissioned as part of the nationwide 14-18NOW<\/em> project.<\/p>\n

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David Lang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As part of a national series of performances, Memorial Ground<\/em> is the Pulitzer-prize-winning composer\u2019s response to the anniversary, written in such a way as to allow choirs around the country to realise the piece in whatever way is appropriate to their occasion. For this performance by the Cecilian Choir, the piece will be combined with words by the First World War poet, Siegfried Sassoon, as well as with a new poem written by Nancy Gaffield, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing in the School of English. The performance will be illuminated by a series of projections from the Special Collections and Archives department in the Templeman Library, curated by Joanna Baines. This sepcially-crafted son et lumiere event begins at 1.10pm, and will last approximately twenty minutes; admission is free – if you can’t make it, the event will be streamed live online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Friday 11 November <\/strong>at 11am, third-year Music Scholar and trumpeter Alex Reid will play the Last Post in the Registry Garden;\u00a0this is followed at 1.10pm by a lunchtime concert\u00a0 focusing on poet and composer Ivor Gurney. Arranged by Dr Kate Kennedy, the event dramatizes Gurney\u2019s life as musician, soldier and eventually asylum patient, following his progress in his own words and music, with humour and poignancy.<\/p>\n

From the start of next week, Colyer-Fergusson Gallery will host an exhibition produced by the Gateways to the First World War<\/em> Project<\/em> exploring music during the conflict, which will be on display\u00a0until Friday 25 November.<\/p>\n

Find out about all these events and more online\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n