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Somme commemorations - Salford will remember (Salford City Council)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Mar 2016
(Source. Salford City Council). Soldiers killed at the battle of The Somme will be remembered in a full weekend of commemorations in Salford in July - including the world premiere of a new, musical tribute ... City Mayor Ian Stewart said ... The first half will feature works by UK composers George Butterworth and Cecil Coles who died and Ivor Gurney who was shot and gassed in the Somme battle ... It will be recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3....

Raphaela Papadakis (soprano) & Alessandro Ruisi (violin)

Edit Skiddle 21 Feb 2016
a rare opportunity to hear repertoire for this unusual combination including Vaughan Williams 'Along the field' and 'Two English folksongs', Holst 'Four songs', Ivor Gurney; and a new piece ......

Members of the Armed Forces record poems on the London Underground (MoD - UK Ministry ...

Edit Public Technologies 06 Nov 2015
Major Sartaj Singh Gogna from the British Army has recorded When I Go From Hence by Rabindranath Tagore Captain Beth Gray from the British Army has recorded Everyone Sang by Siegfried Sassoon Sub-Lieutenant James (Jimmy) Still from the Royal Navy has recorded Bach and the Sentry by Ivor Gurney Able Seaman Jennifer Wright from the Royal Navy has ......

Armed Forces and TfL service veterans deliver war poetry on the Tube 05 Nov 2015 ...

Edit Public Technologies 06 Nov 2015
Major Sartaj Singh Gogna from the British Army has recorded - When I Go From Hence by Rabindranath Tagore Captain Beth Gray from the British Army has recorded - Everyone Sang by Siegfried Sassoon Sub-Lieutenant James (Jimmy) Still from the Royal Navy has recorded - Bach and the Sentry by Ivor Gurney Able Seaman Jennifer Wright from the Royal Navy ......

Members of the Armed Forces and TfL service veterans deliver poignant war poetry on the ...

Edit Public Technologies 05 Nov 2015
Major Sartaj Singh Gogna from the British Army has recorded When I Go From Hence by Rabindranath Tagore Captain Beth Gray from the British Army has recorded Everyone Sang by Siegfried Sassoon Sub-Lieutenant James (Jimmy) Still from the Royal Navy has recorded Bach and the Sentry by Ivor Gurney Able Seaman Jennifer Wright from the Royal Navy has ......

English poet and writer with lifelong love of Ireland

Edit The Irish Times 19 Sep 2015
Poet, literary commentator, columnist, sometimes actor and former British soldier PJ (Patrick Joseph) Kavanagh cut a striking figure with his strong, handsome, hawk face, his pipe, hat, scarf, tweeds and air of determination and shyness ... Kavanagh was born in Worthing, West Sussex ... Love and marriage ... He also edited the poems of Ivor Gurney, who had shared his love of the Cotswolds ... The other Kavanagh ... ... Time has been his friend ... ....

Remembrances of a great poet: PJ Kavanagh

Edit The Independent 10 Sep 2015
P. J. Kavanagh was the natural heir to Louis MacNeice. He praised MacNeice’s “wristy” manner and that is the key to his own best poetry. Commentators tend to refer to his nature poetry in the line of Edward Thomas and Ivor Gurney, his Catholicism, but like no other poet he captured that MacNeiceian rhythmic kick that drives the poem on. Comparison with Edward Thomas, who, admittedly, Kanavagh loved, isn’t enough ... it cannot be faked ... ....

PJ Kavanagh, from The Perfect Stranger to Father Ted

Edit The Guardian 05 Sep 2015
The writer, poet, actor and broadcaster, who died this week, is remembered with admiration by his publisher ... Finding his bibulous namesake in a hostelry, he introduced himself. The old poet said ... He knew the value of what he wrote and that, like the quiet, formal, questing work of Edward Thomas and Ivor Gurney (which he edited and revived), it would find a place ... it is an aspect of his themes, not of his style ... weightlessly, and ... ....

PJ Kavanagh: Award-winning author who was acclaimed as a poet of the transcendent

Edit The Independent 04 Sep 2015
Though celebrated as a poet, Patrick Kavanagh first achieved literary distinction in 1966 with a remarkable work of prose, The Perfect Stranger, a memoir taking him to the age of 27 ... This was appropriate for the son of Ted Kavanagh, famous as the writer of the great wartime comedy ITMA, "It's That Man Again" ... Kavanagh edited The Essential GK Chesterton, and, for Carcanet, a new edition of his Collected Poems of Ivor Gurney ... ....

PJ Kavanagh: Award-winning author and journalist who was acclaimed as a poet of the transcendent

Edit The Independent 04 Sep 2015
Though celebrated as a poet, Patrick Kavanagh first achieved literary distinction in 1966 with a remarkable work of prose, The Perfect Stranger, a memoir taking him to the age of 27 ... This was appropriate for the son of Ted Kavanagh, famous as the writer of the great wartime comedy ITMA, "It's That Man Again" ... Kavanagh edited The Essential GK Chesterton, and, for Carcanet, a new edition of his Collected Poems of Ivor Gurney ... ....

Aurora Orchestra, Insomnia - Album review

Edit The Independent 07 Aug 2015
... from Ivor Gurney’s “Sleep” to The Beatles’ “Blackbird” and R.E.M.’s “I’ve Been High”, all sung by Allan Clayton, whose light, clear tenor illuminates the most crepuscular of moods....

The Aurora Orchestra: Insomnia CD review – a bit of a ragbag

Edit The Guardian 06 Aug 2015
Around them are three song arrangements – of Ivor Gurney’s Sleep; Lennon and McCartney’s Blackbird; and REM’s I’ve been High – as well as Thomas Adès’s Les Barricades Mystérieuses, which turns Couperin into something close to Percy ......

Venables: Song of the Severn, Pine Boughs CD review – convincing and yearning

Edit The Guardian 16 Jul 2015
But there are cadences, too, of composers from earlier in the 20th century, such as George Butterworth and, especially, Ivor Gurney, on whom Venables has done a great deal of valuable research....
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