On Sunday, November 18 at7.30pm in The Free Church Suburb residents will have the opportunity to enjoy an evening of choral music with a difference as the Royal Free Music Society and The Zemel Choir come together with a concert to mark the centenary of the end of World War 1.
Accompanied by members of the Wallace Ensemble, the choirs will perform ‘The Spiritof England’ – Sir Edward Elgar’s tender and haunting requiem to the millions of war dead. Set to the poems of Laurence Binyon, it was composed and first performed while Europe was still being ravaged by the First World War. The concert will also see the world premiere of ‘Armistice’, specially composed for this concert by the musical director of both choirs, Benjamin Wolf. Wolf’s contemplative work combines haunting war poems and sacred funerary texts, both set to original music, with arrangements of familiar World War 1 melodies – songs popular with both the soldiers and their families back home. The programme will also include music by Ravel, Finzi, Fauré and Schubert. The soloists are Charlotte-Anne Shipley and Edmund Hastings. 
Tickets priced at £15 (£10 for full-time students/unwaged)are available online at www.ticketsource.co.uk/rfms – or at he door for the same price.