When you see the millions of the mouthless dead
Artikelnummer 
                            
                                BH13336
                           
                            
                        Kategori
                                Blandad kör
                                        Barn och diskantkör
                                Besättning
                                SATB
                                Kompositör
                                MacMillan James
                                Textförfattare
                                Sorley Charles Hamilton
                                51 kr
                        
    
                            This setting of Charles Hamilton Sorley’s war poem was composed for Genesis Sixteen to perform at the 2015 Cumnock Tryst, James MacMillan’s own music festival in Ayrshire, Scotland, marking the centenary of Sorley’s death at the Battle of Loos aged 20. Sorley was born in Scotland and educated in England, with further study in Germany, where he was at the outbreak of World War I.
A homophonic, expressive setting of a secular and non-partisan remembrance text, of particular interest to choirs performing war-themed programmes.
                A homophonic, expressive setting of a secular and non-partisan remembrance text, of particular interest to choirs performing war-themed programmes.