Casualties of War

Casualties of War

Event Date: 
08/11/2014 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Cygnet Theatre, Friars Gate, Exeter

Exploring the legacy in Poetry and Song of the Lost Generation of World War I and those deeply affected by the conflict.

Poetry and Song by the lost generation of World War I and those deeply affected by the conflict

Richard Roddis tenor , Clive Pollard piano

Rosalind Williams & Gillian von Fragstein reader

Composers: George Butterworth, the emblem of lost talent; W Denis Browne and Ernest Farrar, who both left only a handful of pieces. Poets: Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke, Francis Ledwidge, Wilfrid Gibson. Straddling the two art-forms and prolifi c in...