WORKS by composers from the three nations mainly involved in the First World War, Britain, France and Germany, will be represented in a concert by the Renaissance Choir at Petersfield.
The composers who served in their respective armies were Ralph Vaugham Williams in the British Army, André Caplet, of France, and the German Paul Hindemith.
The programme, at St Peter’s Church, on October 27, at 7.30pm, will also feature the written word, with poetry being read by Piers Burton-Page, a Petersfield resident and broadcaster on BBC Radio 3.
In a change to its usual unaccompanied programmes, the Emsworth-based choir will perform Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem with St Peter’s organist, Mark Dancer, with Cameron Todd on trumpet and Nik Knight on percussion.
Vaughan Williams wrote this work in the 1930s as a response to his time as a stretcher-bearer in the trenches while Caplet composed Messe a Trois Voix in 1920, just a few years before he died in 1925, largely as the result of a wartime gas attack. Hindemith wrote his Six Chansons in 1939.
Tickets are £12, with concessions at £10 and students £2. They are available by calling 023 9247 5259, from One Tree Books, Lavant Street, Petersfield, online at: www.ticketsource.co.uk/renaissancechoir or on the door.