Featuring the Trench Choir, a talk by Sir Stephen Sedley and a workshop and performance by Louise Jordan (No Petticoats Here)
Have you ever wondered how troops were persuaded to go into battle, what kept men and women going throughout extraordinary hardships, or how music changed during the course of the First World War?
Malvern’s very own Trench Choir present a series of events tracing the history of music in the war one hundred years ago – and retell the history of the Great War through the music of today.
1.30pm: ‘The Bells of Hell: What the Troops Sang in the First World War’, a talk by Sir Stephen Sedley, Visiting Professor, University of Oxford
2.30pm: Coffee
3pm: The People We Lost: Workshop with the Trench Choir, based on the real-life experiences of their relatives in the war. Bring along your own family stories.
3.30pm: Song Writing Workshop led by Louise Jordan, award-winning singer and composer. Discover our local World War One history and create a new remembrance song.
5pm: America Enters the War, a Musical Lecture by James Kelly and the Trench Choir on the American entry into the war in 1917
6-7.30pm: Break
7.30pm: No Petticoats Here: Louise Jordan’s One-Woman Show tells the stories of remarkable women of the First World War through song, supported by a performance of Women’s Work by the Trench Choir
Tickets
£12.50 for full day
£10 for evening concert only
£5 for Sir Stephen Sedley talk
Contact Malvern Theatres for tickets
Box Office: 01684 892277
Email: boxoffice@malvern-theatres.co.uk
Trench Choir gratefully acknowledges the financial support of Malvern Town Council.
