Programme

Keep the Home Fires Burning

      Novello/Ford

Tommy (spoken)

      Kipling

Song of a German Mother

      Eisler/Brecht

Die Soldatenbraut (preceded by translation)

      Schumann/Mörike

Le Disparu (preceded by translation)

      Poulenc/Desnos

From ‘When Heaven and Earth Changed Places’

      Le Ly Hayslip/Jay Wurts

Mon Ami/My Friend

      Weill/Paul Green

Chanson de Craonne

From Margaret Fryer Dresden 1945: The Devil’s Tinderbox

      Alexander McKee

Prelude no 2 (Piano Solo)

      Gershwin

Letters from ‘Dear Laughing Motorbyke: Letters from Women Welders of the Second World War’

      Ed. Margaretta Jolly

Buddy on the Nightshift

      Weill/Hammerstein  (verses interspersed with the letters above)

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INTERVAL

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Diary, 1942

      Kay Allsop ms.

Sister Susie’s Sewing Shirts for Soldiers

      Darew/Weston

Cambodia

      James Fenton

I’ll Make a Man of You

      Finck/Wimperis

Die Beiden Grenadiere (preceded by translation)

      Schumann/Heine

The Bells of Hell

From ‘The Waste Land’

      T S Eliot

How Many Tears?

      Schönberg/Boubil

C (preceded by translation)

      Poulenc/Aragon

From ‘Life under fire in Gaza/Life in Ruins’

      Atef Saif (The Guardian)

We’ll Gather Lilacs

      Novello

Everyone Sang (spoken)

      Sassoon

Prelude in D-flat

      Ivor Gurney

There’s Something About A Soldier

      Noel Gay

Hecuba

      Euripedes/Kennelly

Keep the Home Fires Burning (Reprise)

      Novello/Ford