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44 Flowers of the Great War Sacrifice the Lost Songbirds of the Somme 44 Flowers of the Great War Sacrifice The lost songbirds of the Somme about in their agony ... those less injured The Lost Songbirds of the Somme Preface crawled to the nearest shell-hole. The (performed without applause) noise of battle became indescribable ... he appalling carnage of Again and again the extended lines of 1 GF Handel Dead March from the Somme seems to us British infantry broke against the German Saul in G major arr. for voice, string inexplicable, indefensible. defence like waves against a cliff, only quartet and accordion Leadership’s failure to adapt in T to be beaten back. It was an amazing The archetypal work any way humanely to modern weapons spectacle of gallantry, courage and bull- performed at Commonwealth created terrible carnage. Men were dog determination on both sides.” funerals in WWI. It was played at the butchered like livestock in ways we (German account of the first day of first Anzac Day commemorations in struggle to comprehend. The war’s the Somme, from The Old Front Line, by Egypt on April 25 1916. stalemate needed inhuman resolve to John Masefield) 2 Jacques Ibert Noël en Picardie deliver victory. Who, in effect, won the Many who served were so damaged, for string quartet and accordion Battle remains unclear. Probably the they sowed the seeds of an even This famous French composer French, given they took their objectives greater disaster. created this work during his service with less horrific losses, while the battle The psychosis that produced Hitler as an anaesthetist working at the weakened the assault on Verdun. Had stems partially from his experience at hospital in Amiens in 1915. Germany won, the story of the Somme Fromelles, where he fought opposite 3 George Wilkinson Suzette would have been of their courage in the Australians. The trauma of the (1915) for tenor, strings and the face of continual shelling – a WWI Somme poisoned hope, corrupted the accordion version of the Rats of Tobruk. The good, maimed all it touched. English composer and friend Germans called the Somme das Blutbad The losses were so great, the of George Butterworth, served as – the blood bath. Both they and the numbers numb us. This is a story of a sergeant in the 16th Middlesex French are now overlooked in the face martyred villages, composers lost. Regiment, killed trying to take the of the vast Commonwealth casualties. Where music would have flowered, Hawthorn Redoubt at Beaumont Such incomprehensible fortitude. only silence. By telling the story of the Hamel on the 1st July 1916. His How did soldiers continue in the face of songbirds of the Somme, this shared body was not found and he is such certain and pointless slaughter? tragedy is reduced to a human scale commemorated on the Thiepval Through a belief on all sides that they that can be truly felt. monument. were serving the greater good. That Willie Braithwaite Manson their sacrifice would spare further The Great War is over for all who 4 When I came last to Ludlow misery, hence their stoic endurance, fought it. 5 Loveliest of Trees for tenor, inconceivable today. strings and accordion “They came on at a steady easy pace, Their sacrifice must be made The New Zealand composer expecting to find nothing alive in our meaningful. Willie Manson wrote these songs trenches ... a few minutes later, when the while studying at the Royal Academy leading British line was within 100 yards, It is for us to continue to win the peace of Music in London. Joined the 1st/4 th the rattle of machine-guns and rifle fire Battalion London Regiment (London broke out from along the whole line of Scottish) as a private, Jan. 1916, and craters. served on the Western Front from The advance rapidly crumpled under May. He was killed on July 1st on his this hail of shells and bullets. All along 20th birthday at Gommecourt by an the line men could be seen throwing their exploding shell. His remains were arms into the air and collapsing, never not found and his name is inscribed to move again. Badly wounded rolled at the Thiepval monument. Flowers of the Great War 45 6 Francis Purcell Warren life in psychiatric institutions. Contalmaison during the Somme Adagio for cello, strings and 10 Frederick Septimus Kelly campaign, capturing a series of accordion Elegy arr for string quartet and trenches near Pozières on 16–17 July English violist and composer, a 2nd accordion 1916, for which he was awarded the Lieutenant with the 10th Battalion of Australian composer and gold Military Cross. He was killed while the South Lancashire Regiment, was medal winning rower, served as a recapturing Munster Alley on 5 reported missing on July 3, probably Lt Commander in the Royal Naval August, and his body was lost in the killed July 2 1916 south of Thiepval. division and was killed at Beaumont- fierce bombardments of the next two His name is recorded on the Thiepval Hamel on Nov 13 1916. The Elegy years. His name is recorded on the Memorial. This Adagio was his last was originally written in Gallipoli Thiepval Memorial. completed work before leaving for but Kelly reworked it in the days just 14 Reynaldo Hahn À Chloris for the Front, and was planned as the before his death. tenor, strings and accordion slow movement of a Cello Sonata. 11 Traditional The Reel of Tulloch Born in 1874 in Venezuela to a 7 Ivor Gurney In Flanders for The Canadian piper James German Jewish father, Hahn became tenor, strings and accordion Cleland Richardson, on 8 October a naturalised Frenchman in 1912 Setting of a poem by Lt F. W. 1916 at Regina Trench, under intense and signed up as a private in 1914. (Will) Harvey, 1/5th Gloucestershire fire, strode up and down the German Promoted to corporal in Regiment, captured 17 August wire playing this reel, inspiring his the 31st Infantry Regiment, 1916, by the English composer company to take the position, for Hahn served in the Somme in 1916 Ivor Gurney, 2/5th Battalion of the which he was awarded the Victoria and wrote this exquisite song that Gloucestershire Regiment. The Cross. Later while transporting year. song was written at Crucifix Corner, prisoners and the wounded back to 15 F S Kelly The Somme Lament Thiepval, and finished on 11 January the Canadian lines, he turned back for strings and accordion 1917. to recover his pipes which he had Kelly wrote this introduction to 8 Ivor Gurney Severn Meadows left behind in No Man’s Land. He a planned set of orchestral variations for tenor, strings and accordion was never seen again. In 2002 his on Oct 28 1916 while billeted at The only published song pipes were discovered in Ardvreck Mesnil near Thiepval. He was killed by Gurney that used his own war preparatory school in Scotland (a in the third German trench during poetry, from his collection of war British Chaplain, Major Edward Bate, the breakthrough at Beaumont poems Severn and Somme, was had found them on the battlefield Hamel on Nov 13 1916. He is buried written in March 1917 at Caulincourt and brought them back to the school nearby in the Martinsart British on the far western edge of the where he taught). In November Cemetery. Somme. of 2006, they were repatriated to 16 Walter Braunfels Vorspiel 9 Ivor Gurney By A Bierside for Canada and are now displayed at from Die Vögel, for strings and tenor, strings and accordion the British Columbia Legislature accordion Written in a disused trench building. Walter Braunfels served in the mortar emplacement in July 1916 12 Georges Butterworth German infantry in France during between Contalmaison and Ovillers- The Lads in their Hundreds (from A the Great War. His opera, The Birds, la-Boisselle, later orchestrated by Shropshire Lad) for tenor, strings and which he had started before the war his friend Herbert Howells (along accordion and continued to work on during with In Flanders) for an end-of-term 13 Requiescat for tenor, strings the war, was completed in 1919, and concert at the Royal College of and harmonium premiered to enormous acclaim in Music in London on 23 March 1917. Butterworth served as a Lieutenant 1920. It is the great opera of WWI. After the war Gurney suffered a in the 13th Battalion Durham breakdown and spent the rest of his Light Infantry, and fought near 46 Flowers of the Great War 17 Botho Sigwart Adagio from The Flowers of War, France French dates the War Sonata arr for string quartet July 14 18:30pm Suzanne, Église Saint- and accordion Andrew Goodwin tenor (Australia), Rémy Botho Sigwart volunteered for Zbigniew Kornowicz, Joanna Rezler July 15 19:30pm, Guillemont, Église active service in 1914 and served (Orchestre de Picardie, Amiens) and Saint-Pierre in the German infantry in Flanders Christopher Latham violins (Australia), July 17 17 :00, Fleurbaix Église Notre- and France, where he wrote his Paul Mayes, viola (Orchestre National Dame-du-Joyel Kriegssonate (op.19). His regiment de Lille), Catherine Delanoue, cello July 18 19:30pm Péronne Église Saint- was then transferred to Galicia (France), David Novak, accordion Jean-Baptiste on the Eastern Front in April 1915. (Slovenia) and Jordan Aikin, bagpipes July 19 15:30pm Fromelles, Eglise Saint Promoted to lieutenant and having (UK). Jean Baptiste been awarded the Iron Cross, he July 20 18:30pm Amiens, Cathédrale was shot in the lung and died on 2 The Flowers of War, Australia Notre-Dame d’Amiens June 1915 in a field hospital in Jaslo, July 21 18:30pm, Albert Basilica of Poland.
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