Spirit of ANZAC at Positively Wellington, Michael Fowler Centre

Dates: (4/21/2016 )

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Positively Wellington, Michael Fowler Centre

111 Wakefield Street
Wellington,Wellington 6011

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Running Time: Approx concert duration: 1 hour and 10 mins

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Frederick Septimus Kelly - In Memoriam Rupert Brooke
George Butterworth - A Shropshire Lad
Ross Harris - Symphony No.2

We continue to commemorate the centenary of the First World War in this special concert of remembrance and thanksgiving. Australian composer Frederick Septimus Kelly wrote his string elegy, In memoriam Rupert Brooke, from a tent while stationed at Gallipoli.

It was the poetry of A. E. Housman and his evocative portraits of the English countryside that inspired George Butterworth’s profound orchestral rhapsody, A Shropshire Lad. Butterworth also died in 1916 during the long, brutal struggle for the Somme.

This programme continues its thread of poetry with Ross Harris’ frightening and beautiful Symphony No. 2, recalling another difficult part of our history. This work, with settings of poems by Vincent O’Sullivan, remembers those soldiers who were executed for desertion and features the intensely expressive voice of soprano Madeleine Pierard.

Cast and Creative team for Spirit of ANZAC at Positively Wellington, Michael Fowler Centre

Hamish McKeich - Conductor
Madeleine Pierard - Soprano

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