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Memorial Ground, National Portrait Gallery

On 12 Nov 16, free promenade performance

A programme of vocal music for Remembrance featuring David Lang's specially commissioned piece with the singers' own words

By Claudia Pritchard on 6/11/2016

Memorial Ground will be sung by the Portrait Choir, joined by the Pembroke Academy of Music Community Choir, here rehearsing at the National Portrait Gallery
Memorial Ground will be sung by the Portrait Choir, joined by the Pembroke Academy of Music Community Choir, here rehearsing at the National Portrait Gallery
Memorial Ground, National Portrait Gallery Memorial Ground, National Portrait Gallery Claudia Pritchard
Los Angeles-based composer David Lang wrote the score for the hit films La Grande Bellezza and Youth, but when he comes to London this week it is to hear a very difference composition of his sung at the National Portrait Gallery.


The Portrait Choir, joined by other communities choirs, performs his Memorial Ground, a deceptively simple "hymn" that commemorates those whose lives were lost in the first world war, and since, and those who survived but whose lives were changed for ever.


Memorial Ground allows the singers at the many performances that have taken place since its premiere in Scotland in July to add family or personal recollections of their own, sung to a tune by Lang, but repeating as many notes from his score as is needed to name individuals and sum up what war did to them.


The choirs will also sing Sir Hubert Parry’s elegiac Songs of Farewell and poet Jackie Kay will read her poem Private Joseph Kay.


Admission is free, but booking beforehand is essential. Click here for more details.

by Claudia Pritchard

What Memorial Ground, National Portrait Gallery
Where National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE | MAP
Nearest tube Charing Cross (underground)
When On 12 Nov 16, free promenade performance
Price £0
Website Click here for booking



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