Time & place
Venue
Tickets and info
Telephone (box office)
0131 473 2000
Description
Edinburgh Royal Choral Union commemorates the centenary of the beginning of the Great War with a programme of music from across the centuries. Judith Bingham’s Christmas Truce, composed in 2003, movingly tells the story of the temporary armistice on Christmas Day 1914 in the trenches of northern France. Bingham combines texts from diaries, private letters and news reports, alongside German and British Christmas carols, into a haunting meditation on that extraordinary day. Gerald Finzi’s setting of verses from Robert Bridges’ poem, ‘Noel: Christmas Eve, 1913’ sits alongside Haydn’s famous ‘Nelson Mass’.
Tickets
£18 / £15 concessions / £12 restricted view / £5 students
available from www.hubtickets.co.uk or 0131 473 2000