LUNCHTIME RECITAL
Recital:
‘Keep the Home Fires Burning’
Music and Poetry of World War One
FREE ADMITTANCE
Retiring Collection
The Programme
Wind and Words
Chris Hooker – clarinet
Dimitri Kennaway – piano
Valerie Fry – poetry
Who’s for the game?
Paul RubensYour King and country want you
Rupert BrookeThe busy heart
Weston/LeeGood-bye-ee! (excerpt)
Evelyn UnderhillNon-combatants
Nat Ayer, Clifford GreyIf you were the only girl in the world
A E HousmanIs my team ploughing?
George ButterworthIs my team ploughing?
Guillaume ApollinaireL’adieu du cavalier
Lew Brown, Albert von TilzerAu Revoir, but not Good Bye
Siegried SassoonDreamers
Mike HardingChristmas 1914
Jerome KernThey didn’t believe me
Ivor GurneyBach and the Sentry
Ivor GurneyIn Flanders
John McCraeIn Flanders Fields
trad. Bugle callThe Last Post (excerpt)
Wilfred OwenAnthem for doomed youth
trad. Bugle callTaps (excerpt)
Leslie CoulsonThe Rainbow
trad. Bugle callSunset (excerpt)
Rudyard KiplingGethsemane
Haydn WoodRoses of Picardy
Woodbine WillieThe Spirit
trad.Mademoiselle from Armentières (excerpt)
Isaac RosenbergBreak of day in the trenches
Irving BerlinOh! How I hate to get up in the morning
Valerie FryFor the record
medley:World War One popular songs
G K ChestertonElegy in a Country Churchyard
J P Long, M ScottOh! It’s a lovely war
Philip GibbsThe Armistice
Ivor NovelloKeep the home fires burning
The Artists
‘Keep the Home Fires Burning’, about World War One, is a recital of clarinet, piano and poetry with Chris Hooker, Dimitri Kennaway and Valerie Fry. It combines tunes of the period with poetry, weaving them into one continuous performance. The programme consists of poems written by poets who served in The Great War, including Siegfried Sassoon, John McCrae and Wilfred Owen. The music features a range of composers including Ivor Novello, Jerome Kern and George Butterworth.
Also in their repertoire are ‘We’ll Meet Again’ about The Second World War and ‘Music and Sweet Poetry’, a programme with music spanning five hundred years accompanied by poems about composers and their works.
Enquiries to valerie@windandwords.com or 07960 794737
As a poet, Valerie Fry has given readings across the country to a wide range of audiences. Originally a Drama and English teacher, she now combines her interest in writing with performance. Her play, A Game of Two Halves won BBC Radio Five Live’s playwriting competition in 2006. In 2013, and again in 2015, she was commended in the Hippocrates Poetry Prize
Chris Hooker’s career has been in Music Education both as a teacher and a manager. Now he devotes his time to playing, arranging and conducting. He is the leader of River City Saxes, a saxophone quartet in which he plays soprano sax and is a member of Barnes Concert Band. He also plays saxophone and clarinet in ‘Saxswing’, a programme of music of the 1920s to the 1950s. www.windandwords.com
Dimitri Kennaway studied at the Royal College of Music from 1977 to 1980 and gave his Wigmore Hall debut in 1986, and subsequently performed at the Purcell Room, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Fairfield Hall. Recently, composition for the commercial sector has been an extensive part of his musical activities in addition to teaching private pupils.
www.kennawaymusic.com
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