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Some experts are youngstersOriginally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
Wiki (from Floss) says this
Many artillery units continued to fire on German targets to avoid having to haul away their spare ammunition. The Allies also wished to ensure that, should fighting restart, they would be in the most favourable position. Consequently there were 10,944 casualties of which 2,738 men died on the last day of the war.[19]Comment
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Cali, have you bought that Naxos cd, called, "Flowers in the Field".Originally posted by Caliban View PostTo restore the tone slightly
... I had a quiet moment or five with Howells's 'Take him, earth, for cherishing' earlier to mark the day.
Now: Finzi's 'Requiem Da Camera'
"August 1914" - John Masefleld (Requiem da Camera, movement 2)
How still this quiet cornfield is to-night!
By an intenser glow the evening falls,
Bringing, not darkness, but a deeper light;
Among the stooks a partridge covey calls.
The windows glitter on the distant hill;
Beyond the hedge the sheep-bells in the fold
Stumble on sudden music and are still;
The forlorn pinewoods droop above the wold.
An endless quiet valley reaches out
Pat the blue hills into the evening sky;
Over the stubble, cawing, goes a rout
Of rooks from harvest, flagging as they fly.
So beautiful it is, I never saw
So great a beauty on these English fields,
Touched by twilight's coming into awe,
Ripe to the soul and rich with summer's yields.
[ ... ]
These homes, this valley spread below me here,
The rooks, the tilted stacks, the beasts in pen,
Have been the heartfelt things, past-speaking dear
To unknown generations of dead men,
Who, century after century, held these farms,
And, looking out to watch the changing sky,
Heard, as we hear, the rumours and alarms
Of war at hand and danger pressing nigh.
And knew, as we know, that the message meant
The breaking off of ties, the loss of friends,
Death, like a miser getting in his rent,
And no new stones laid where the trackway ends.
[ ... ]
Yet heard the news, and went discouraged home,
And brooded by the fire with heavy mind,
With such dumb loving of the Berkshire loam
As breaks the dumb hearts of the English kind.
"Lament" - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1918) (Requiem da Camera, movement 4)
We who are left, how shall we look again
Happily on the sun or feel the rain
Without remembering how they who went
Ungrudgingly and spent
Their lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain?
A bird among the rain-wet lilac sings -
But we, how shall we turn to little things
And listen to the birds and winds and streams
Made holy by their dreams,
Nor feel the heart-break in the heart of things?
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A busy day for me, always.Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750Comment
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Some tracks from it, Bbm, yes - the Finzi and the GurneyOriginally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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No, the expert in question is 19Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
and has read more books on WW1 than I knew existed
(no relation either
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I see from the televised news that ceremonies were held in the UK today as well as last Sunday. Would it be a good idea for the UK to declare 11th November as a Public Holiday and have all the ceremonies on the one more appropriate day?Comment
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Oh yes please!Originally posted by Alain Maréchal View Post
As one who was forced to observe two minutes of silence in the bank today I'd be glad to be able to take advantage of Eurostar offers to get somewhere else.
It's the near-compulsory nature of it all that annoys and repels me.Comment
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Yes - a public holiday on 11 November would make sense, and all related ceremonials could be scheduled for that day, thus giving those who wish to partake, the opportunity to do so, and for those who do not, a day off. Let's face it; Britain has more or less one of the lowest number of public holidays, as well as one of the lowest annual holiday entitlements, of any of it's peer group nations.Comment
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As long as you remember that the two countries to which Eurostar travels would both be having a Public Holiday.Originally posted by amateur51 View PostComment
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Armistice Day (as it was) was always commemorated on November 11 alone at one time and I'd agree that we should return to this date which should be the single focus of the commemoration of the war dead. As things are at present there seem to be several lots of two minute silences at this time of year (eg Saturday football, Remembrance Sunday and Nov 11) so it would make sense to bring it all together, as it once was, on November 11. Should this date happen to fall on a Saturday or Sunday, however, people will be done out of a day's holiday!Originally posted by visualnickmos View PostLast edited by Petrushka; 11-11-14, 22:39."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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In my view, yes, undoubtedly. The sheer embarrassment of what happened and the continuing commemoration of it - as long as it is properly recognised for what it is - shuld indeed determine that the day of commemoration should be 11/11. I don't know about a public holiday, but 11/11 it should be, for sure.Originally posted by Alain Maréchal View PostComment
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A great day, befitting the centenary. Harry Hayes is a star for a day!
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