Robert-John Edwards (Bass-Baritone) and Fraser Graham (Piano) present a recital of songs, all by composers or with words by poets, contemporary to the Great War of 1914-18. They tell the tale of a ploughboy, born in the late 1880s/early 1890s. |
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Date/Time
Date(s) - 01/08/2015
5:00 pm - 5:45 pm
Location
The Blue Orange Theatre
Robert-John Edwards (Bass-Baritone) and Fraser Graham (Piano) present a recital of songs, all by composers or with words by poets, contemporary to the Great War of 1914-18.
They tell the tale of a ploughboy, born in the late 1880s/early 1890s. We start with him as a child, watching his father plough the fields and learning the farmer’s trade. It then progresses through his youth where he becomes ambitious and then meets the girl of his dreams, woos her, marries her and has a child. While he is lying in a field in summer and hears the sound of men marching off to war and he decides to join the army. He joins in with some good, uplifting war songs before the horrors of the “Great” War begin to bite. He becomes home-sick, sees death up close and then, at his last hour, is desperate to go home. Back home, his spirit returns one last time to discover that time continues to pass and life goes on; his sacrifice, a high cost for the freedom of all.
This recital includes a new original setting of McCrae’s “In Flanders’ Fields” by Robert-John Edwards.
Tickets £6.
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