Exhibitions Lectures Films Music & Poetry War RequiemEvents to mark the 100th anniversary of the start of World War 1

The Very Revd Roger Bush introduces Truro Cathedral’s commemoration programme

August 4th this year sees the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War. Those who went to war in that hot summer had no idea, of course, just what a cataclysmic event it would turn out to be.

Over the next four years there will be many commemorative events marking significant moments during the war, but specifically in August and November this year, Truro Cathedral will be holding a series of talks, displays and concerts that focus on many aspects of the War and its significance: this series will include involving schools in telling the story of the War from local standpoints, the showing of films which have a First World War theme, the recitation of War poetry, and lectures by people with distinguished careers in theology, history and public affairs.

We hope to show that the War had many faces, and that engagement with the War is something that still resonates with many people today. I hope you will find something of interest in what follows.

The War did leave lasting consequences, and we hope that what the Cathedral is offering will explore something of the horror, the courage and the determination of people not to be overcome by despair that the War consistently evokes in our imagination.

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World War One EvensongSunday 3rd August at 4pmJoin us on the eve of the centenary of the start of World War One as we commemorate the sacrifice of all involved. Service sung by the Callington Singers.

Bach’s B Minor MassMonday 4th August at 7.30pmMarking the centenary of the outbreak of World War One, the St Endellion Festival Orchestra and Chorus join forces with Truro Cathedral for a special performance of one of the greatest choral works ever written: Bach’s Mass in B minor. Conducted by rising star Ryan Wigglesworth, and with an international team of soloists comprising Sophie Bevan, Mary Bevan, Pamela Helen Stephen, Mark Padmore, Matthew Brook, this concert promises to be one of the highlights of the WW1 commemorative events.Tickets from the Hall For Cornwall Box Office: 01872 262466 or www.hallforcornwall.co.uk

Candlelit Prayer Vigil for PeaceMonday 4th August (10pm – 11pm)Truro Cathedral will be holding a silent prayer vigil from 10pm until 11pm. At 11pm, the time at which this country declared war a hundred years ago, there will be a short service asking for God’s forgiveness and guidance. You are very welcome to join us, for a few moments or for the whole hour, for this candlelit vigil.

4th August 1914 - 4th August 2014

Remembrance Week 2014Truro Cathedral Choral EvensongsFrom Monday 3rd to Friday 7th November at 5.30pm Truro Cathedral Choir will sing Choral Evensongs exploring the theme of ‘war’.

Cathedral Remembrance ServiceSunday 9th November at 10amJoin the Cathedral Choir and congregation for this special service featuring a liturgical performance of the Fauré Requiem, remembering all those who have died.

Royal British Legion Remembrance Service Sunday 9th November at 3.15pmPoignant service featuring the local branch of the Royal British Legion

Two Minute SilenceTuesday 11th November at 11amJoin us in the cathedral as we mark the First World War Armistice

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LecturesThree eminent speakers and writers take three different approaches to understanding the lessons of World War One

“Martyrs as really as St Stephen was a Martyr”?Commemorating the dead of World War One

Lecture given by Professor John Wolffe, Oxford UniversityThursday 25th September 7 for 7.30pm startTruro Theological Society present a lecture by Professor John Wolffe (Oxford University). The title of this lecture comes from a sermon by the Bishop of London, Arthur Winnington-Ingram, preached early in the First World War, reflecting a widespread clerical impulse to frame the memory of the war dead in a Christian context set against an influential secular

nationalist construction of their sacrifice. The other focus of the lecture will be on the steps taken to commemorate the dead and controversies over

the design of cemeteries and headstones. It will be shown how in the face of significant pressure for secular forms of commemoration, church leaders were successful in securing significant compromises, but in so doing engendered an enduring ambiguity between Christianity and nationalism.Tickets £4 (includes glass of wine) in advance from the Cathedral Office, 14 St Mary’s Street, Truro, TR1 2AF, 01872 276782 or on the door

Remembering the Great War: tracks and tricksLecture given by Michael Portillo, former Defence Secretary

Monday 3rd November at 7pmMichael Portillo will examine how the outbreak of war in 1914 postponed

a civil war in Ireland and a general strike, and attracted most suffragettes to vigorous support of the government’s war effort. It was a railway war. Railways precipitated a mechanised war. They were the conveyor belt for men to the trenches and for the shells intended to annihilate them. Railways determined how the war was fought, the outcome of battles, and arguably the outcome of the war itself. The British people were motivated by the plight of Belgium and the fear of German imperialism.

But after the war, the British started to think that the war had been futile and they had been the victims of propaganda. The Germans’ denial of war

guilt played an important part in the rise of Adolf Hitler. Tickets £10 from Hall For Cornwall, 01872 262466 or on the door.

War and the problem of sufferingLecture given by Professor Paul Fiddes (Oxford University)Tuesday 4th November at 7pmWar raises the problem of human suffering in an acute way. The aim of this lecture is to develop a theological response to suffering in our own lives today, including the impact of war but not restricted to this experience. The argument is grounded in the witness of poets of the First World War, expressing actual human experience of war with a particular intensity. The belief that God suffers with us offers needed consolation and the possibility of giving meaning to our own human stories, two themes that are painfully and poignantly explored by the poets of war.Tickets £10 from Hall For Cornwall, 01872 262466 or on the door.

Rethinking the First World War in 21st century Britain: opportunities and obstaclesLecture given by Dr Catriona Pennell(Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Exeter)Thursday 6th November 7pmReviewing how historians have written about the First World War and how that has evolved over time, Dr Pennell explores the ‘revisionist’ framework currently used to view the war and how public memory and perceptions have similarly altered. She ends the lecture with some of her own reflections of where the British public is ‘up to’ regarding popular memory of the war. What can be said as we move into the centenary period? What her hopes are for the centenary in terms of what it will allow for ‘rethinking’?Tickets £10 from Hall For Cornwall, 01872 262466 or on the door.

Special Ticket Dealso All three £10 lectures for £24 (half price for students)o One film + lecture £12 (half price for students)

THREE SPIRES SINGERS & ORCHESTRA President: PETROC TRELAWNY

with TRURO CATHEDRAL CHOIR and THE AMADEUS ORCHESTRA

Britten WARREQUIEM

conducted by Christopher GrayElizabeth Llewellyn soprano u Mark Padmore tenor u Gavan Ring baritone

TRURO CATHEDRALSaturday 8 & Sunday 9 November 2014 7.30 pm TICKETS: Reserved £15 —£21 Under 18 half price BOX OFFICE CORNWALL, Back Quay, Truro TR1 2LL Tel 01872 262466 www.hallforcornwall.co.uk

The War Requiem forms part of a week of activities in Truro Cathedral commemorating the centenary of the outbreak of World War One. See www.cornwallremembers.org.uk for details.

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Britten’s War RequiemSaturday 8th & Sunday 9th November at 7.30pmBritten’s War Requiem was commissioned to mark the consecration of Coventry’s new Cathedral in 1962, the original having been totally destroyed by bombing in WW2. Such vast resources are needed in this work that performances are rare, and it has not been heard live in Cornwall for 27 years. Britten uses Wilfred Owen’s WWI poetry, sung by tenor and baritone soloists accompanied by a chamber orchestra, juxtaposed with Latin words from the Requiem Mass, sung by the choir and soprano soloist, accompanied by a huge orchestra. The work also includes a separate part for a boys’ choir which will be taken by the Cathedral Choristers. Mark Padmore, Elizabeth Llewellyn and Gavan Ring are soloists of international renown who will bring exceptional presence to the performance. The War Requiem offers an unforgettably powerful musical experience, and a profoundly moving commemoration to victims of war.Tickets £15-£21 from Hall For Cornwall, 01872 262466 www.hallforcornwall.org,uk

Pre concert talk. Title: War and Peace in Britten’s BritainJohn Bridcut in conversation with Petroc TrelawnySaturday 8th November at 6pm in the Cathedral Chapter HouseThis introduction to Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem explores both the text and the music of the work that, more than any other, cemented Britten’s international reputation. The composer conceived it as a European project, and yet much of its strength derives from the rarity of the requiem in the British tradition, the particular British responses to the slaughter of the First World War, and of course the powerful English poetry of Wilfred Owen.Tickets £10 must be bought in advance as Chapter House has limited capacity. From Hall For Cornwall, 01872 262466www.hallforcornwall.co.uk

Seminar on Britten’s War RequiemA half-day Seminar presented by Christopher Gray and Russell Pascoein Truro School ChapelSaturday 4th October 10am – 1pm (Registration from 9.30am)The seminar will explain how the vast performing forces of the War Requiem are used and why Britten chose to incorporate Wilfred Owen’s poetry into the Latin requiem mass. It will look at the historical circumstances leading to the commissioning of the work for the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral in 1962 (the original having been destroyed in a World War II bombing raid), and will explore the pacifism of Britten, the pacifism of Owen, and how their arts collide in the War Requiem. The seminar will consider where the War Requiem sits in the grand Requiem tradition, together with analysis of Britten’s unsettling music, how the work was received, and its legacy. Bring a packed Lunch.To book a place, pick up a form in the cathedral or online www.threespiressingers.org.uk and send cheque for £12 made out to Three Spires Singers. Further information from Jenny Young, 07817 468807, jennybyatt@hotmail.co.uk

War RequiemBenjamin Britten’s War Requiem is a fitting culmination of our week of commemoration

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All Quiet on the Western Front (PG)1930Tuesday 4th November 9.15pmOscar winning adaption of Erich Maria Remarque’s novel of the same name. A young German soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I. Directed by Lewis Milestone, starring Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy and Ben Alexander.Tickets £5 from Hall For Cornwall, 01872 262466 or on the door.

Gallipoli (PG) 1981Wednesday 5th November 9.15pmA Peter Weir film starring Mel Gibson and Mark Lee as two idealistic young friends who join the Australian army during World War I and fight the doomed Battle of Gallipoli in Turkey.Tickets £5 from Hall For Cornwall, 01872 262466 or on the door.

Regeneration (15) 1997Thursday 6th Nov at 9.15pmBAFTA-Award-nominated film adaptation of the Booker award-winning novel of the same name by Pat Barker, directed by Gillies MacKinnon. It stars Jonathan Pryce as Dr William Rivers, who treated World War I officers suffering from shell shock. It follows the treatment of friends Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon and raises profound questions about the nature war and its impact on humanity.Tickets £5 from Hall For Cornwall, 01872 262466 or on the door.

Special Ticket Dealso All three films for £12o One film + lecture £12 (half price for students)

FilmsFilms play a major role in shaping modern memory and perceptions of history.Enjoy three classic films about WW1 on the Cathedral’s BIG screen!

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Cornwall’s Schools Remember: Personal stories and reflections from the First World War15th July – 21 NovemberPupils from schools throughout Cornwall have been busy researching the impact World War One had on their families, local communities and Cornwall as a whole. Information has been gathered from various sources including interviews, visits to WW1 sites and Cornwall Record Office. The pupil’s response to these experiences both artistically and philosophically form the basis of this exhibition, in a sense it is one young generation talking to another, separated by a century. 10-5pm (Mon-Sat), 12-4pm (Sun), Free.

Opening the Gates of Hell1st August – 15th AugustAn exhibition of paintings by Phil Whiting marking the hundredth anniversary of the start of World War One. Phil Whiting writes, “Some dates in History are overwhelmingly significant : 4th August, 1914 - the start of the Great War is one such date. It was not simply the start of a world war but was the start of a descent into barbarity which lead to the Gulags, Nanking, Auschwitz and Hiroshima and did not end until the Cold War and the birth of the United Nations in the 1940s. My exhibition, of paintings and text, will hopefully provide a salutary reminder of what might happen next, through further exposing the scars of what happened in the four years which followed 4th August, 1914 - the date humanity clearly and willingly opened the gates of Hell.”10-5pm (Mon-Sat), 12-4pm (Sun), Free.

No Man’s Land: A triptych created by Roy RayMonday 20 October – Saturday 15 NovemberDuring the Great War, No Man’s Land was the link between opposing trenches and the killing ground for both sides. It also became the improbable meeting place for soldiers during the Christmas truce of 1914. Often a barren wasteland devoid of vegetation, pitted with shell holes and shrouded in barbed wire, it became the horrific canvas for the mechanical slaughtering of millions of young men. The artist explores the nature of this common ground, wrestling with his own emotions and responses and creating a unique and visually stunning testament to the sacrifice of all involved. 10-5pm (Mon-Sat), 12-4pm (Sun), Free.

Trenches: A series of World War One ‘constructions’ by Roy RayMonday 20 October – Saturday 15 NovemberUsing fragments of letters, poems, artefacts and the detritus of trench life, Roy Ray creates a poignant reminder of the lost generations from both sides.10-5pm (Mon-Sat), 12-4pm (Sun), Free.

ExhibitionsA series of exhibitions will mark the centenary of the start of World War One

Poetry, Songs and Music

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Truro CathedralSaturday 6th September7.30pm (Doors open at 7pm)

Tickets from Hall for Cornwall tel. 01872 262466

or buy online at www.hallforcornwall.co.uk

Seats: £18 | £15.50 | £12.50 (restricted view)

Commemorating 100 years in Music and Verse

HON UR

Over Glory

featuring HMS Drake Royal Naval Volunteer Band,

Caroline Childe Soprano, Cameron Rolls Tenor,

The Three Belles, Kieran Knowles and the Poppy Rocks! choir.

The Royal British Legion Registered Charity Number 219279

Never such Innocence again: Poems of the First World War Monday 3rd – Friday 7th November (10am – 4pm)Former English teacher Simon Price has selected 35 poems, one to be read in the Cathedral on the hour (10am-4pm) through the week. His aim has been to reflect as wide a range as possible of the human experiences and responses to the so-called Great War: the big themes of pity, horror, grief, anger and bitterness, but also some tiny moments of humour or hope or beauty. Free.

Honour Over Glory: 100 Years in Music and Verse Saturday 6th September at 7.30pmA Commemoration Concert of music and verse marking the start of World War One with the superb HMS Drake Royal Naval Volunteer Band, World class singers Caroline Childe (soprano) and Cameron Rolls (tenor), the fabulous Three Belles and highly respected actor Kieran Knowles. All profits from this concert will go to the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal.Tickets from the Hall For Cornwall Box Office: 01872 262466 or www.hallforcornwall.co.uk

Yesterday Lost: Poems, Songs and War Letters - Ivor Gurney 1890-1937Wednesday 5th November 7.00pmA collection of songs and words to honour the memory of Ivor Gurney and his generation, reflecting three phases in his life with Jonathan Carne and Naomi Johnston.First, the early influences: pre-war Gloucester where he grew up; the countryside which was a source of visionary inspiration; his scholarship to the Royal College of Music where he became an awkward yet brilliant student and showed early signs of genius.Next, the First World War and the torment of trench warfare and army discipline: a time when Gurney’s musical utterance became crystalline and the voice of a unique war poet emerged.Finally, the aftermath of war. Invalided out of the army, with his best verse and many fine songs yet to write, Gurney drifted from casual work back to the College and eventually into a long and harrowing mental decline.Tickets £10 from Hall For Cornwall, 01872 262466 or on the door.

Working on NO MAN’S LAND Thursday 13 November at 7pmAn evening of stories, music and poetry featuring Roy Ray, Katie Kirk and Annie Henry. Both poignant and heart-warming ‘Working on NO MAN’S LAND’ engages the audience using Roy’s warmth and natural humour to explore our shared experience of war and conflict. The punctuation of poems and songs lead the audience to reflect on their own memories and responses to conflict. In the Chapter House. Refreshments available. Tickets £5 Send SAE and cheque made out to ‘Truro Cathedral’ to Truro Cathedral Office, 14 St Mary’s Street, TRURO, TR1 2AF.

Organ RecitalFriday 7th November at 1.10pmThe Great War’s shadow was cast on the organ lofts of England just as in every other sphere. This recital will explore its effects on the music and personalities of the early 20th Century British music world. Performed by Luke Bond, Assistant Director of Music. Free with retiring collection

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Calendar

Exhibitions

Films

Lectures

Music

Poetry

War Requiem

Worship &Vigil HfC = Hall for Cornwall Box Office

01872 262 466TC = Truro Cathedral Office 01872 276 782TSS = Three Spires Singers (see page 7 for contact details)

START DATE TIME EVENT COST BOX OFFICETues 15 July Mon-Sat 10-5pm Cornwall’s Schools Remember FREE -to Fri 21 Nov Sun 12-4pm Fri 1 to 15 Aug Mon-Sat 10-5pm Opening The Gates Of Hell FREE - Sun 12-4pmSun 3 Aug 16.00 Evensong marking the centenary of WW1 FREE -Mon 4 Aug 19.30 Bach’s B Minor Mass £8-£24 HfCMon 4 Aug 22-23.00 Candlelit Prayer VIgil FREE -

Sat 6 Sept 19.30 Honour Over Glory: 100 years in Music £12.50 HfC and Verse t £15.50 £18.50Thurs 25 Sept 19.00 for ‘Martyrs as really as St Stephen Adults £4 TC 19.30 start was a martyr?’ U18 Free, Stu £2Sat 4 Oct 10-1pm Seminar on War Requiem with Christopher £12 inc. TSS Gray (Musical Director) and Russell Pascoe Coffee & (Composer) CakeMon 20 Oct - Mon-Sat 10-5pm No Man’s Land Tryptych - Roy Ray FREE -Sat 15 Nov Sun 12-4pmMon 20 Oct - Mon-Sat 10-5pm Trenches Exhibition FREE -Sat 15 Nov Sun 12-4pm Mon 3 to 10-4pm War Poems on the Hour FREE - Friday 7 NovMon 3 Nov 19.00 Lecture: MICHAEL PORTILLO £10 HfCTues 4 Nov 19.00 Lecture: Prof. PAUL FIDDES £10 HfCTues 4 Nov 21.15 Film: All Quiet on the Western Front (PG) £5 HfCWed 5 Nov 19.00 Yesterday Lost: Ivor Gurney t £10 HfCWed 5 Nov 21.15 Film: Gallipoli (PG) £5 HfCThurs 6 Nov 19.00 Lecture: Dr CATRIONA PENNELL £10 HfCThurs 6 Nov 21.15 Film: Regeneration (15) £5 HfCFri 7 Nov 13.10 Organ Recital FREE -Sat 8 Nov 18.00 Pre Concert Talk - John Bridcut and Petroc Trelawney £10 HfCSat 8 Nov 19.30 War Requiem £15, £18 HfC £21Sun 9 Nov 10.00 Remembrance Service inc. Fauré Requiem FREE - Sun 9 Nov 15.15 Royal British Legion Service of Remembrance FREE -Sun 9 Nov 19.30 War Requiem performance £15, £18, £21 HfCThur 13 Nov 19.00 Working on NO MAN’S LAND t £5 TC

note: poetry events marked with a t include music