Beattie, Simon - A Remembrance
Instrumentation: SATB (with divisi) a cappella
ISMN: 9790060153648
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes MP Ltd.
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Composer's note: I wrote the words here in 2014, for a local poetry competition. A few years later, I decided to set them for a concert I was involved in to mark the centenary of the First World War. The piece is dedicated to the memory of Sydney Lacey, a local Buckinghamshire man who emigrated to Australia in the early 1910s only to return to Europe in 1915 where he died, along with about 5500 other Australians, on the Western Front, at the Battle of Fromelles. His name is engraved on Chesham war memorial, which I walk past almost every day.