Friday, 19 June 2015

EVENTIDE LONDON PREMIERE

Tickets are now on sale for the LONDON PREMIERE of 
Eventide: In Memoriam Edith Cavell.

Tickets £18


The work honours the heroism of Edith Cavell, a nurse celebrated for saving the lives of soldiers from both sides in World War I without discrimination.  The London concert is to be deeply poignant since the performance will take place exactly 100 years to the day after her death by a German firing squad in 1915 for helping Allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium.

The concert will feature the Brandenburg Sinfonia and Addison Singers under the baton of David Wordsworth.  Tiffin Boys Choir will provide the semi-chorus singing the haunting melody of the well-known hymn Abide with Me which permeates the whole work, and are the last words Cavell recited with her chaplain hours before her execution.

Click here to see the BBC's feature ahead of the World Premiere in Norwich Cathedral last year.

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