Ode to Remembrance
for SATB a cappella chorus
Composer
Colin Timothy Eatock
Colin Timothy Eatock
Composition Date: 2018
Duration: 00:02:00
Genre: Choral (9 + Voices), A Capella
Programme Note:
Between 1914 and 1918, an astonishing amount of poetry was written about “The Great War” – the largest and bloodiest conflict the world had yet seen. This body of poetry is diverse in the extreme: including both works of pro-war patriotism and glorification, and anti-war poems about the horrors and futility of the conflict. Laurence Binyon was too old to enlist in the British Army, but he served as an orderly in field hospitals in France. Excerpts from his poem “For the Fallen” are often presented under the title “Ode To Remembrance.” Here, I have chosen the second, third and sixth stanzas. This piece is also the fifth movement of my Five Poems From the Great War (2018).
They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain,
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain.
Premiere Information:
10 Nov 2018, Grace Episcopal Church, Providence RI
Collegium Ancora; Vince Edwards, artistic director
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Duration: 00:02:00
Genre: Choral (9 + Voices), A Capella
Instrumentation:
Instrumentation Set Number 1:- 1 x Mixed chorus
Programme Note:
Between 1914 and 1918, an astonishing amount of poetry was written about “The Great War” – the largest and bloodiest conflict the world had yet seen. This body of poetry is diverse in the extreme: including both works of pro-war patriotism and glorification, and anti-war poems about the horrors and futility of the conflict. Laurence Binyon was too old to enlist in the British Army, but he served as an orderly in field hospitals in France. Excerpts from his poem “For the Fallen” are often presented under the title “Ode To Remembrance.” Here, I have chosen the second, third and sixth stanzas. This piece is also the fifth movement of my Five Poems From the Great War (2018).
They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain,
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain.
Premiere Information:
10 Nov 2018, Grace Episcopal Church, Providence RI
Collegium Ancora; Vince Edwards, artistic director
CATALOGUE INFO:
- Call Number:
- MV 6000 E137ode 2018
- Genre:
- Choral (9 + Voices), A Capella
- Date of Acquisition:
- January 30, 2019
- Type:
- Print-music, Published by CMC
- Physical Description:
- Score (ii, 16 p)
18 Pages
Height: 30 cm
Width: 23 cm - Language Information
- Main language: English
- Additional Information:
- For SATB a cappella chorus.
Additional People:
Laurence Binyon
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