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Jo’s Requiem

2019 (rev. 2020) | 4’30”

tenor, piano

Text by Ernest Rhys

Written for the Ludlow English Song Weekend Young Composers Platform 2019

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Jo's Requiem, unlike much poetry written about the Great War, deals not with the large-scale conflict or the twisted steel or the immense bloodshed, but rather focusses on a single man without any mention of war. There is no commentary, no judgement, no honour, no explanation and no argument. Jo works on a farm, and then he is dead.

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