Larry Hills conducts the Bass Coast Chorale and orchestra during a performance of They Went with Songs at Foster on Anzac weekend in 2015. Composite photo: Catherine Watson
THE Bass Coast Chorale will perform local composer Larry Hills’ acclaimed cantata They Went With Songs in Inverloch next weekend as part of a program marking 100 years since the end of the First World War.
The chorale will be joined by an orchestra and soloists, brothers Tom and Corey Green, for the performance. The Remembrance Day program, And in the Morning …, also includes The Armed Man – A Mass for Peace (Choral Suite) by Karl Jenkins.
They Went With Songs is a cantata, a work for voices with instrumental accompaniment. The title comes from the third stanza of Laurence Binyon For the Fallen, the poem that also contains the ANZAC Ode:
“At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.”
Larry wrote the cantata to commemorate the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign in 2015. It was a performed as a major part of Bass Coast’s participation in the centenary, supported by the Australian Government’s ANZAC Centenary Local Grants Program. This enabled it to be performed in three centres, Wonthaggi, Leongatha and Foster over the ANZAC weekend in 2015. It was always envisaged that it would be performed again to commemorate the centenary of the Armistice on Remembrance Day 2018.
The text of They Went With Songs is based on poems, songs, letters and diaries of local soldiers who fought in the Great War. Australians were known for their singing as much as for their bravado and courage. They sang on the boats as they landed at Gallipoli; they sang in the trenches; they and the Turks sang to each other across no man’s land.
They Went With Songs is a musical insight into the thoughts and emotions of country boys in 1914 who were launched from their peaceful farms and daredevil teenage adventures into a world they could not have imagined.
Suddenly faced with real anxiety and dread, missing their mothers, longing for their sweethearts, thoughts and emotions cascade through their minds as they take on their journey through the unimaginable horrors of the war and grow, too quickly, into men. And those who come home reveal the images that never leave them.
The work has a narrative following a country boy through poignant experiences of joining up, leaving home, facing the terror of battle, terrible loss, grief and finally homecoming. It highlights the effects on the soldiers and their families and rural communities during and after the Great War.
And In The Morning … is at the Inverloch Hub at 2pm on Remembrance Day, Sunday November 11. Tickets ($15 for adults and free for children) are available through trybooking.com or at the door.
They Went With Songs is a cantata, a work for voices with instrumental accompaniment. The title comes from the third stanza of Laurence Binyon For the Fallen, the poem that also contains the ANZAC Ode:
“At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.”
Larry wrote the cantata to commemorate the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign in 2015. It was a performed as a major part of Bass Coast’s participation in the centenary, supported by the Australian Government’s ANZAC Centenary Local Grants Program. This enabled it to be performed in three centres, Wonthaggi, Leongatha and Foster over the ANZAC weekend in 2015. It was always envisaged that it would be performed again to commemorate the centenary of the Armistice on Remembrance Day 2018.
The text of They Went With Songs is based on poems, songs, letters and diaries of local soldiers who fought in the Great War. Australians were known for their singing as much as for their bravado and courage. They sang on the boats as they landed at Gallipoli; they sang in the trenches; they and the Turks sang to each other across no man’s land.
They Went With Songs is a musical insight into the thoughts and emotions of country boys in 1914 who were launched from their peaceful farms and daredevil teenage adventures into a world they could not have imagined.
Suddenly faced with real anxiety and dread, missing their mothers, longing for their sweethearts, thoughts and emotions cascade through their minds as they take on their journey through the unimaginable horrors of the war and grow, too quickly, into men. And those who come home reveal the images that never leave them.
The work has a narrative following a country boy through poignant experiences of joining up, leaving home, facing the terror of battle, terrible loss, grief and finally homecoming. It highlights the effects on the soldiers and their families and rural communities during and after the Great War.
And In The Morning … is at the Inverloch Hub at 2pm on Remembrance Day, Sunday November 11. Tickets ($15 for adults and free for children) are available through trybooking.com or at the door.