OLIVER RUDLAND

A dramatic cantata after Carol Ann Duffy

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'Christmas Eve in the trenches of France, the guns were quiet.
The dead lay still in No Man’s Land –
Freddie, Franz, Friedrich, Frank . . .
The moon, like a medal, hung in the clear, cold sky.'

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Music by Oliver Rudland

 

First Staged Performance:

 

11th November, 2018

Great St Mary's, Cambridge

 

Director: Oliver Rudland

Conductor: Michael Waldron

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Photos © Daisy Nisbet